On 09/16/2010 09:40 PM, Ryan Byrd wrote: > Nobody except uber-nerds/Stuart cares at all about top/bottom/trimming > posts. At all. The same people that complain about this non-issue also > complain about HTML email and Flash and PHP.
No one but tree hugger freaks cares about litter either. I digress. Your e-mails have entertained me on many occasions. Thank you! As far as professional correspondence goes, almost all e-mail I receive from so-called professionals (management-types) at BYU, mainly OIT middle managers, is quite unprofessional. It's really sad, actually. Some people actually think it's business-like and professional to sign their emails with FirstnameLastname where one of the names is a different color. But that's not the worst of it. Almost without exception when someone in the management hierarchy replies to my email with top-posting it signifies that he or she did not read anything I wrote and is just replying to what he or she thought I said. It's very frustrating because it represents simple laziness on the other person's part. If he's too lazy to read what I actually wrote, what else is he lazy in? Are my ideas even mattering to him and my company? I bet that many of you can say similar things about so-called professional e-mails at your companies too. I think if people made a habit of posting in-context, it would force them to actually read what they were replying to. I know that on countless occasions, as I've begun to insert my reply into the quoted text of an e-mail I've realized that I completely misread what the person was saying. Not top-posting has saved me from major embarrassment on a number of occasions. Just something to think about. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
