Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
> >Rick Thomas wrote in Article
> ><[🔎] D95BB531-A19B-46FE-BC9B-FC5418EBDC2C@pobox.com> posted to
> >gmane.linux.debian.user:
> >
> >> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html
> >
> >Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people
> >utterly fail in grade school, or are they deliberately ignoring the flow of
> >language?
[snipped stuff which should have been snipped by previous poster]
> Their MS outlook defaults to top posting...therefore it must be ok.
> Microsoft said so =_)
It could be argued that it defaults to putting the cursor at the top so
to enable easy snipping of unnecessary text. If it defaulted to bottom
posting then even less snipping would occur. :-(
IMHO "top posting" is preferable to "bottom posting without snipping".
Also it is preferable to snip the sig and any disclaimers etc.
--
Chris.
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