On Monday 17 November 2008 09:05:59 Robert E A Harvey wrote:
I blame training. The mega-corp I work for uses microsoft LookOut and exchange swerver. Everyone top-replies, and I appear to be the only person in the whole organisation who knows that you can scroll down and read the earlier messages. It baffles my boss completely.
Its the same where I work. But I don't consider top-posting to be evil in a corporate environment. Here, in a mailing list, I have access to every message that's posted. If you've written it, I've already seen it. At work, I'm often included as a To: or a Cc: the eighth or tenth time a message goes around, and it's finally determined that I need to be involved. In a corporate environment, there's no mailing list. No archives to retrieve an old message thread from. When I'm finally asked to solve that problem, I need my first email to include enough background that I can understand the problem. So I'm very pleased that Outlook defaults to top-posting, HTML formatting, and it encourages every message to include the whole previous thread. It's not what I want for mailing lists, but then, I'm not dumb enough to use my corporate email account for personal mailing lists. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org