On 5/14/24 10:41 AM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
We have a clash of two cultures here.
More than just *nix vs. M$.In business communications by email, the norm is to quote the *entire* thread, every time, without paring anything down, purely for the sake of CYA. As such, top-posting is the only reasonable alternative, given that recipients would otherwise have to scroll through hundreds, perhaps thousands of lines of quoted material to find a bottom-posted reply, or worse, *actually read* through all that quoted material to find an inline-posted reply.
In list-server communications (and to a lesser extent, BBS posts), the norm is to pare down quoted material to the barest minimum needed to provide context (originally to save bandwidth and storage, both of which are *still* finite resources), and to bottom-post or inline-post one's replies, in order to give them a more natural flow. CYA doesn't factor in at all.
-- JHHL