On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:55:52PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > You work someplace pretty unique. Everyplace I've worked has done the > whole top-posting and include the whole damn thread in reverse order > thing. It just doesn't work. The attached reverse-chronological > history doesn't seem to do _any_ good at all. AFAICT, nobody ever > reads it. Occasionally somebody will refer opaquely to something with > the phrase "see below" -- but there's never any indication to _what_ > among the fifteen messages and thirty attachements they are referring.
In my experience, this "e-mail-that-contains-the-entire-conversation" is useful if and only if you happen to receive a forwarded copy so you know something you were not previously aware of. Otherwise, replies just accumulate past conversations because people are too lazy to bother. I wouldn't dare inline-replying in my current Outlook corporate environment. I just top-post, don't trim, go with the flow. Cheers, -- José María Mateos https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
