justin wrote: > <snipped random Justin things including 5-sentence replies!> > > i agree. sometimes middle posting is ideal. most of the time, however, > i find myself responding to an email as a whole, or to a theme seen > throughout the message. in these cases, i usually find myself trimming > all but a sentence or two and then top posting.
Most of the e-mails I reply to are at most a paragraph, and my replies are not much longer (this one is obviously overly wordy). I still insist on posting below their context. It shows that I have read and respected what they said, and that my reply is appropriate and addresses what they had to say. When I get a top-posted reply to an e-mail I've sent, it says to me, "I've looked only casually at your e-mail and here's a casual response." It's just not professional. If you insist on replying out of context, I suggest you drop the context entirely and remove the entire quoted, original e-mail, like someone would do if they were corresponding via good, old-fashioned post. Sometimes this is appropriate, although in such cases the subject should probably be changed too. The end. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
