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> When I started posting on Usenet almost ten years ago I'd follow
> proper posting guidelines, but now the majority of my messaging is
> done in a corporate environment. It's very cumbersome to address
> specific comments in a message when having an email conversation with
> multiple recipients across disparate email systems (some on rich text,
> others plain text, and still others using HTML). This is worsened by
> the fact that many corporate email users have no knowledge of proper
> posting techniques. So I follow the Microsoft default that started
> with Network Courier: Historical information related to this message
> is below.
>
Does your busy corporate schedule leave you so tired and weary that the
effort of typing BELOW the quoted text and scrolling down to read a reply
is just too much fo you?
> Actually Eric, it's more convenient for both of us if I don't have to
> scroll to the bottom to craft this response, and you don't have to
> scroll to the bottom to read it. Fact not fiction; not worthy of
> debate.
>
Let me demonstrate a little something:
Conversation using bottom-posting -
Original message.
<quote One>
Reply One
<<quote one>>
<quote two>
Reply Two
<<quote one>>
<<quote two>>
<quote three>
Reply Three
<<quote two>>
<quote three>>
<quote four>
Reply Four.
Fairly easy to follow isnt it?
Now heres that again, only with the occaisional top-poster-
Original Message
<quote one>
Reply One
<<quote one>>
<quote two>
Reply Two
Reply Three
<<quote two>>
<quote three>
<<quote three>>
<quote four>
Reply Four
Reply Five
<quote five>
<<quote three>>
<<quote four>>
And so on.....
Its a mess, anyone who arrives part way through the conversation will find
it practically impossible to pick up on whats been said.
But hey, dont exhaust yourself with all that heavy scrolling yeah?
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