On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 07:13 -0700, erenoglu wrote: [...] > I work at a multi-national and Outlook is the norm. The norm of > Outlook is top posting, and it's OK since reading mails with bottom > posting & quotes are tough when they are 10s of messages on a given > subject. Sometims you're forwarded an email and need to go throught > the whole set of mails bottom up to understand the context as the > quoted parts not always cover everything.
I can confirm this from my own experience. It's a PITA but "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" so I went along with it when in a corporate environment. However technical mailing lists are a different story (a different "Rome") and the longstanding tradition is to avoid top-posting and trim posts to what one is commenting on, given that the list archive has all the previous context anyway. > HTML is also a must as there are multiple occasions where you want to > insert a picture and comment on it, or a table and make annotations or > comments over it as well. Many in-line replies carry different font & > color (Outlook does a good job of putting your name &pick a good color > to differentiate your comments in someone else's mail. > Yes, there may be better methods to do all these things but tough to > convince so many people. Also true in the corporate world, and false on technical mailing lists. Furthermore, HTML in email is a potential security risk so many people prefer to avoid it. To summarize: follow the ground rules of the community you are addressing. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
