From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ronn! wrote:FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom.
...which is kind of strange. I typically see snipping and bottom-posting on Usenet and in most e-mail lists, but at every corporate job I've worked (and I worked quite a few as a temp), you never snip anything from an email and you always reply at the top.
Yep, I've noticed the same thing. People familiar with Usenet and email
lists are generally quite sophisticated about snipping, keeping the attributions
straight, and replying in-line, but most other people, even tech-savvy ones,
are usually content to just stick a reply on top, and leave a chain of replies
below it. This used to bug me a lot, since it makes communications less clear
of what exactly they are replying to, but I've given up on worrying about it.
I now have my first job which has widespread e-mail. All the other ones, I was the only one using it. A few months ago my boss passed an e-mail conversation that was between my boss and another person, firming up a program that I was to write. It literally took me a day to figure out what they were talking about, because a lot of the specs were changing, 'we want it that way' one day, 'no, take that out and do this' the next. The e-mail covered three months. I finally had to copy the e-mail to Word and resort by date and time, and remove the stupid signature tags each boss had. Of course once I written the specs as I interpreted them, both bosses didn't agree with my version, or each other. So that started another round of e-mails, but I controlled them.
Kevin T. - VRWC Is it Friday?
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