Nicholas Geti wrote: > Emails are a totally different animal than a report. I would never scroll to > the bottom of a report and start reading because I have no sense of the > topic. Emails on the other hand are discrete bits with most bits repeated. I > already have a good sense of the thread so why should I be required to > scroll through them to find the change? > Yes, your position is understandable for a mail address at work dedicated only to office mails. But if you are subscribed to 7 to 10 different mail lists, plus personal mails, plus work related mails you will certainly need a reminder of what was going on in the thread. In that case the norm is to hover over the thread cited in the mail till you get to the actual message. Of course you get the lazy a**es who won't take the 1/2 a second needed to trim, and then you get enormous amounts of cited text. But you can certainly read your cited text and my answer within a screen with no need for scrolling.
> In addition most of the emails on this forum are so much fluff. When I do > find a thread that is highly technical and I want to learn it, I will spend > the time scrolling up and down and clipping text to put it together <spam trimmed> > . In that case it matters not > at all to me what order exists. > So you don't care to spend half an hour making sense of text but you do care for half a second trimming. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
