Wht dd u sai? On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 22:58 -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: >> 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. > > Putting an image of a Web page in a Word document and attaching it to an > email in order to share a login url. Submitting a bid to a Linux company > as an MS Publisher file. (Publisher?!) Requiring all attachments to be > zipped but have a zipp extension so that they'll make it past the > corporate anti-virus filter. Treating the CC: field like a corporate > version of Katamari Damacy. Multi-paragraph emls wrtn lik txt msgs. lol! > I've seen plenty of silly email behavior, as has everyone who deals with > corporate email. > > But... > > If I could eliminate one thing it would be top posting. Far too often > what could have been a simple exchange requiring a couple messages turns > into a multi-day, sometimes even multi-week affair attempting to ask the > same set of questions multiple ways until they're all answered or > rendered irrelevant. > > I've tried many solutions. > > (1) Numbering topics. > > (2) Limiting important content to single sentence paragraphs. > > (3) Sending multiple message, one per new thread of discussion. > > (4) Etc. > > While it sometimes helps a little, it's a amazing how stubbornly some > people insist on replying without reading and understanding the entire > message first. > > -- > Stuart Jansen <[email protected]> > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ >
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