On Sat, 2011-04-02 at 16:28 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > Nothing to do w/ corporate email or BB's. It's much easier to reply & > > it's much easier to read a sequence of emails that are top posted.
Bull $#^*&@^#, top-post messages are harder to read. One has to remember that message are not always [even typically] read in-thread-order (thus no mental-state-tracking is in play). Mail list messages are often read months, or even years, later; either in list archives or via any variety of search mechanisms. A well-formed inline-quoted messages is 10,000,000,000,000 times easier to understand/follow and place in context. One purpose of a forum is to facilitate discussion, a second and equally important function is to serve as a knowledge-base. > Like hell it is - it is just overly confsing - how many times have you > seen a message that is, in its entirety, something like "yes, I think > that is correct" followed by a few thousand lines of included email > conversation without any indiction of what they are actually agreeing > with. It's lazy and just transfers work to other people making them > continually move up and down through an email to try and work out what > you are talking about. +1 lazy +1 transfer-of-effor > e.g. if I just say to the next bit of your email _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
