Interviewed by CNN on 19/2/2010 01:50, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: > I had a client write me in January after I had interspersed my > respective replies after each paragraph of his message: > > "I always wanted to ask you to write your response above my message and > not mix with my original text. It takes me a long time to read your > response and often I just give up." > > It bleeping blew me away. I thought I was doing him a favor by putting > each answer with the corresponding question. >
People are used to do the things one way and get confused with any other way. Many people, particularly in the corporate world, are used to looking at e-mail like it is just a newfangled version of paper letters. So they expect to see a full "letter" and refer to separate documents as necessary -- previous letter being an attachment for convenience only. Personally, I think top-posting is a silly anachronism, in that it keeps imposing the restrictions of old, non-editable media on new tech. But some business people argue that bottom-posting with interspersed comments blurs the distinction between the original message and the response, and takes the original message quotes out of context. My guess is that your client doesn't really grok how the quote marks work, and so kept having to reference his original message to you in the "sent messages" folder, like if you hadn't quoted his message at all. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... BOFH excuse #179: multicasts on broken packets *Added by TagZilla 0.066.2 running on Seamonkey 2.0.3 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
