On 06/27/2016 08:28 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 10:01 am, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > >> The Outlook style works well in a business environment where the >> recipient is likely the original sender of the quoted text, and doesn't >> need the context -- the quoted copy is just a courtesy copy in this case. > > > No it doesn't work well. It is shit in business environments too. It only > works well in one tiny subset of cases:
Indeed. Sometimes it took three emails to get the other person to actually read what I wrote and answer my questions. I would email with a few details and question, and he'd immediately top-post back to me with a one-sentence answer that had very little to do with my question and very apparent that he never read anything I wrote. If he had middle-posted, while he was trimming my reply he would have read or re-read what I wrote and responded appropriately. It's just unbelievable how horrid email communication is in a business environment when top-posting is prevalent. I tried on occasion to urge people to not top-post for these reasons, but by and large people just thumbed up their nose and went on not reading emails and top-posting. I guess it's a special management talent. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
