[ale] OT: top-posting

[Pete Hardie]

2009/1/7 Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org>:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> I think in the business world top-posting is customary and in
>> the engineering world bottom-posting is customary.  Maybe
>> because engineers have a tendency to analyze things and emails
>> can become long threads.
>
> There's a simpler reason than that -- top-posting lets you preserve the
> original message, and indeed the whole thread, in its entirety.  The
> message contains all of the original context.  This way you can forward
> a single message and the recipient will get everything that was sent up
> to that point.
>
> Basically, it's a way to work around crummy tools.

Agreed.

However, that means that *every* message I get about a topic has the whole
conversation up to that point, and I get a mailbox stuffed with
redundant copies, as my boss,
his boss, the PM, the tester, and all the customer staff chime in.



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Pete Hardie
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