-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-10-24 at 05:03 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:
As has been hinted at already, corporate email is very different than Usenet newsgroup postings and public mailing lists. The needs are different, and top posting is indeed called for most of the time in that environment.
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As every new person is involved, that person can move down through the thread as far as necessary to get up to speed with the others.
Yes, that's correct. I also top post in that environment, although I some times trim the bottom. However, I hate when somebody sends a large Word or excel document, and it starts being sent from sales to customer care to technician to boss... and I get dozens of copies of the same file. It's quite a nuisance when you are off the premises using a modem to download your email. It can be an abuse. Or when somebody joins a mail list, using a corporate account and keeps using the same top posting technique as for business mail, increasing email sizes to dozens of kilobytes. We all should follow proper usage rules depending where we write.
Those of us who encourage bottom posting and quote trimming _here_ don't presume to tell others how to conduct their business and personal one-to-one emails. It's up to them to decide what makes sense for them. We're only saying that _here_, in a public forum, one should abide by the rules set by the list administrators and customs that make sense in this particular context. There are many good reasons for those particular rules, most of which have been already been enumerated.
Yes, true. But that doesn't mean that the default behavior of kmail is incorrect ;-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFHH9r0tTMYHG2NR9URAlOWAJ9U0eIF2w7X8eWiuU/mkRRSqy4dzgCfa/+K r3+TxOodWJNJBW+BDE2e/2k= =KiTX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org