On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 17:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > On 03/21/2018 02:52 PM, Stephen Morris wrote: > > I've worked in seven different organizations, they all happened to use > > Lotus Notes as their mail system, which also defaults to top posting, > > but it was a rule in every organization that mail must be top posted. > > Their view was that having to trawl through mails to find responses is a > > time waster, therefore people will not be allowed to do it, hence > > particularly with high level managers, they applied the convention that > > if you did not top post they wouldn't read your mail. If I'm honest it > > I've had situations where I've replied to people at various places and > received no answer. And when I went to ask them why, they said I just > sent them an empty email. I asked them to show me so they click on the > email. Of course my text is below the part immediately visible in the > little preview window, so they assumed that I hadn't written anything. I'd also point out that the 'no top-posting' guideline is specifically for mailing lists. I frequently top-post in personal replies using the Gmail web client. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
