Re: Business reply style

On Thu, April 25, 2013, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> But in business correspondence, new correspondents randomly join a 
> conversation and need to see the full context of a long email exchange 
> that's not archived in a central location, so the reverse full-quoting 
> style is needed in which all previous emails show up below one's response. 

Sorry for the off-topic posting, but here a signature used by
Steve Kirkendall, the author of the Elvis text editor (the
editor I used for composing this very mail), comes into my mind:

| A: It is confusing, since people don't read that
| Q: Why is top-posting bad?
| A: It is adding comments to the top of a message.
| Q: What is top-posting?

I frequently get mails from my customer asking me to look into
something. Usually these mails consist of this sort of thing. 
If find it extremely hard to read, in particular because you
have to read a mail from top to bottom, then go back up again,
find the next more recent mail etc.

Of course I don't complain, I just keep composing my mails the
way proposed by RFC 1855, and it seems to me like my customer is
getting more and more to appreciate this, as finding out 'what
it is all about' is so much easier and less time-consuming this
way.

I don't miss any particular support for top-posting :)

Cheers,

M'bert

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