begin quoting John Oliver as of Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 10:38:59AM -0700: [snip] > Top-posters top-post either because "that's the way Outlook does it" or > to be contrary. Or maybe to be lazy. There certainly isn't any > rational philosophy for top-posting.
The only rational philosophy I've seen has been that it's a way to CYA. If everyone top-posts, and nobody trims, then every email you get when you get cc'd into the middle of a conversation comes with all of the past history, and the person who cc'd you has now discharged their responsibility to "bring you up to speed". Plus, as busy business professionals, we're spending all of our time deciphering "email trails" (reading bottom-to-top) and don't have the *time* to compose a proper reply, much less trim. -- _ |\_ \| -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
