syntax oddities

Fri May 18 18:34:05 EDT 2018

On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:55:52PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> You work someplace pretty unique. Everyplace I've worked has done the
> whole top-posting and include the whole damn thread in reverse order
> thing. It just doesn't work. The attached reverse-chronological
> history doesn't seem to do _any_ good at all. AFAICT, nobody ever
> reads it. Occasionally somebody will refer opaquely to something with
> the phrase "see below" -- but there's never any indication to _what_
> among the fifteen messages and thirty attachements they are referring.

In my experience, this "e-mail-that-contains-the-entire-conversation" is 
useful if and only if you happen to receive a forwarded copy so you know 
something you were not previously aware of. Otherwise, replies just 
accumulate past conversations because people are too lazy to bother.
I wouldn't dare inline-replying in my current Outlook corporate 
environment. I just top-post, don't trim, go with the flow.
Cheers,
-- 
José María Mateos
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