Ed - I TOTALLY Agree with you on that one. That really is my preferred method for making replies - at least when I am home or on my laptop - replying to e-mails.
If there are many topics touched on in an e-mail, its practically Painful to do a Top posting! But, here at work - they use Outlook - and it ends up being Top-Posting is the easiest method to make replies. But, that being said - when I reply back to ProFox from here at work - I try to trim the message - and remove the whole bottom stuff in my replies... (I left your full reply below - since its not a long e-mail anyway...) -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 8:37 AM On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Dan Covill wrote: > I'm with Al. I try to top-post, unless the context is really critical. > Has top-posting been declared evil? Dan, you're a young'un, so you probably don't remember the days before Outlook. :) Besides making things hard to read, it encourages people to not trim their replies. Observe any thread dominated by top posters, and you'll see reams and reams of useless quoted garbage below any actual useful content. Most people who top-post do so because they use an email client that defaults to that style. They click 'Reply', type a few words, and hit send. No thought is given to composition, much less trimming. The ideal method of replying is inline comments, with trimming off all the non-relevant quoted text. That way you have sufficient context to understand what the writer is responding to, and are also able to read it in a much more conversational style. -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ 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/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a1409df2...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** 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.
