On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 11:10 -0700, Shane Hathaway wrote:
> It's all about context.  When I write to a mailing list such as this 
> one, I am writing to a group of very Internet-savvy people, so I use the 
> sophisticated conventions appropriate for the audience.  When I write an 
> email for people at work, many of the recipients only understand the 
> simplest email conventions, so I top-post out of respect for them.

This is the same thing I do at work. Outlook is really only good for top
posting (a single example of its exceedingly high number of problems)
and since everybody else uses that, I have to conform. Which is fine.
But I had a co-worker who insisted on bottom posting regardless and that
caused no end of confusion about who had said what and where the replies
were.

Corey



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