There is good reason, beyond SOX, that most commercial and non-commercial email clients default to top-posting. It's required in the vast majority of corporations around the world.
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Posting_style For a long time the traditional style was to post the answer below as much of the quoted original as was necessary to understand the reply (bottom or inline). Many years later, when email became widespread in business communication, it became a widespread policy to reply above the entire original and leave it untouched below the reply. ... Top-posting has always been the standard format for forwarding a message to a third party; in which case the comments at the top (if any) are a "cover note" for the recipient. ... Customer service e-mail practices, in particular, often require that all points be addressed in a clear manner without quoting, while the original e-mail message may be included as an attachment. On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:30 +0000, toki wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 31/05/2011 17:16, Lindsay Graham wrote: > > Ah, but neither of us would *ever *need to page down to see the current > post if we both top-posted. > > Instead, I have to page down, and read the entire post, to try to figure > out what you are responding to, and get the context of that reply. > > So instead of zipping thru twenty emails per minute, I only go through > two or three emails per minute. > > > You cannot claim, in a general context, that there is there is a > > *proper* way of using one's mail client. > > Actually, I do make that claim. > Intermixed quotes are the proper way to do things, because that is the > only format in which the context the reply being made can be readily > ascertained. > > jonathon > - -- > If Bing copied Google, there wouldn't be anything new worth requesting. > > If Bing did not copy Google, there wouldn't be anything relevant worth > requesting. > > DaveJakeman 20110207 Groklaw. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJN5XoVAAoJEERA7YuLpVrVFG4H/0Mx/+SZKodikKx/aXWrXPMG > DQn53ZFZZSr64UNXyrHjWSaYwmgQ7RgV4nG+a7hYE5lvaz7OrI9T6ebR4BSHGMl+ > EIWypvIEzJhqcQUWhYTDfyYF9obgvmZWn58fD82uasBDr91wYJJCjFTu/F2ddaJU > lVk0TpL2OEXD+USsXEj1bE4ttE6qYOPQ5cEGX8RLaz9Hauv2OpLpOHUOZnCYMsGJ > lH6pfXt/XLq29VvD5BXoaponr7vjzvYXhOqMKckO+MRglkxyfn0KUuqzRpqdffd6 > bHkRbu/+rAWixplRgaebqAajwACqZDxok55bM52yUY/vz7aD44trUaOGRJu/3fs= > =b9MX > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
