On Friday June 10 2005 8:46 am, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > Joe Potter wrote: > >That, of course, is the main point you made. I put all this in the > > lap of Bill Gates --- the miserable ass. He is never happy unless > > he is destroying some standard and replacing it with crap of some > > kind. > > Outlook does it this way not to be contrary, but for an obvious > reason: it works better for the people who use it.
That falsely assumes that the Halloween Memos weren't ever written. Microsoft so much as admits that it pulls stunts like this deliberately to be contrary and lock people in to their product. It's all about lock-in, top posters swallowed the hook. > If you're involved in a discussion, and you're tracking it all -- > because if you don't you're fired -- you want to see the most > up-to-date addition to the discussion, and for the 5% of the time > you need reminding, you can scroll down. That falsely assumes that people track a very small amount of email and have the mental memory of your average modern hard drive. In the real world, people get vastly different volumes of email. If your message doesn't make sense or if someone has to spend a shitload of time sifting through it to regain context for that thread, you're wasting more of someone else's time to figure out what's so important that you're threatening a job over an illegible message than it would have taken you to do it right the first time. In email (like any other form of communication), it is the absolute duty of the sender to make sure their message is clear and understandable, not the recipient to pick it apart and make an assumption on what you're talking backwards about because you couldn't effectively communicate. > The immediate previous > bit will probably remind you, and if not, the bit before that, etc. > It's much more useful for that sort of discussion than > bottom-posting. And I'm not speaking as a Windows-brainwashed suit > -- I've been using Unix tools since 1984 and email since 1975. Bottom posting also isn't the answer, its just as bad as top posting for being a waste of bandwidth and context killer. Quoted material is provided by your client so that you may properly frame your response with it. Not *that* hard to figure out... -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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