On 10/02/2018 12:48 AM, Ethan Furman wrote: > Even for two-person, private email discussions I prefer the interleaved > replies -- in a week when I have to remind myself what was discussed it > is much easier to comprehend.
Absolutely. I've been saved from embarrassment countless times because while editing the quote so I could respond to it point by point, I realized I had misread the the original poster. Top posting usually indicates that the person replying to my email never really read it, and is just replying to what he thought I said or asked. Frustrating to no end. This problem is endemic in corporate communication. Corporate email is completely nonfunctional as a means of communication, largely because of the top posting culture. Well communication is a problem in general in corporations because of the personalities that tend to gravitate towards the management end of things. Top posting just makes the communication that much worse! > Yes. It is extremely annoying when someone top posts and leaves the > entire rest of the discussion still attached at the bottom. Or when they bottom post without trimming, or even when they interleave their responses without trimming. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
