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The Wednesday 2007-10-24 at 05:03 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:
As has been hinted at already, corporate email is very different than
Usenet newsgroup postings and public mailing lists. The needs are
different, and top posting is indeed called for most of the time in that
environment.
...
As every new
person is involved, that person can move down through the thread as far
as necessary to get up to speed with the others.
Yes, that's correct. I also top post in that environment, although I some
times trim the bottom.
However, I hate when somebody sends a large Word or excel document, and it
starts being sent from sales to customer care to technician to boss... and
I get dozens of copies of the same file. It's quite a nuisance when you
are off the premises using a modem to download your email. It can be an
abuse.
Or when somebody joins a mail list, using a corporate account and keeps
using the same top posting technique as for business mail, increasing
email sizes to dozens of kilobytes.
We all should follow proper usage rules depending where we write.
Those of us who encourage bottom posting and quote trimming _here_ don't
presume to tell others how to conduct their business and personal
one-to-one emails. It's up to them to decide what makes sense for them.
We're only saying that _here_, in a public forum, one should abide by
the rules set by the list administrators and customs that make sense in
this particular context. There are many good reasons for those
particular rules, most of which have been already been enumerated.
Yes, true.
But that doesn't mean that the default behavior of kmail is incorrect ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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