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>The alternative is to spend an hour deciphering the blob of goo that is actual mail messages mixed with signatures, attachments You mention attachments, which
by Dayshine 7y ago
>The alternative is to spend an hour deciphering the blob of goo that is actual mail messages mixed with signatures, attachments
You mention attachments, which implies you've been included in all the previous emails. In which case, your email client should be splitting them (often referred to as "conversation" view).
Otherwise, how does it make any difference if the infinite nesting is at the top or the bottom? Or by "top posting" do you just mean replies without trimming?
- scbrg 7y agoI would say that top posting does mean replies without trimming. In theory, they're not the same, of course. In practice, I've seen top posting with trimming a total of... well, zero times. And in either case, reading something from top to bottom is certainly easier than to read something in the order of: Last 3% of the message, followed by the bits that are 93-97% into the message, followed by the bits that are at 86-93% of the message, followed by the bits... every email is like watching Memento. With each scene in whatever typeface that particular person's email client thought was a good idea to enforce upon me. And sometimes purple.