On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > On 2014-02-12, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: >> >>> In other contexts eg corporates, often the culture is the opposite: >>> top-posting with strictly NO trimming. >> >> I've never found a corporation that objects to the sensible >> conversation-style, minimal-quotes-for-context interleaved posting style. > > I've always worked in corporations where the email "culture" is the > Microsoft-induced "lazy and stupid" style as you describe.
Lazy, stupid, and vulnerable to a major privacy breach. I haven't personally experienced this, but my Mum has on occasion: a (lengthy) private conversation between two people in an organization, then they come to a conclusion that should go public, and cc someone outside the organization (my Mum, in this case) on the final email...... complete with the entire history. Yup. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
