Yes, replies at the top are most useful. You can ignore the ones you're not interested in without reading further. At my saltmine--a division of Honeywell--it is a serious offense for anyone to snip anything off an email he is replying to. I do it here to save bandwidth, but if the bean counters want to see the whole history, so be it. And, as an aside, I think the emailer we use at my facility, IBM's Lotus Notes, was actually written for a UNIX system before it was ported to Windows, but I'm not sure. It "top-posts." --dm At 12:16 10/14/2002 +0100, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
[businesses] dislike somebody else trimiming what they said, because the exact meaning can be altered.
But this is exactly why snipping is so useful. If someone snips your post but has misunderstood you, you can see exactly where and why the misunderstanding has occurred, so can address that issue. Otherwise, you're simply left with a misunderstanding and no clue why they're being so "dim".
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