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There's another reason bottom- (or interspersed) posting does not work well in corporate email chains: Outlook flatly doesn't support it. Quoted text in a repl
by ScottBurson 14y ago
There's another reason bottom- (or interspersed) posting does not work well in corporate email chains: Outlook flatly doesn't support it. Quoted text in a reply is not indented by default. The replier has to do extra work to put their reply in a different font or color so it's clear what's quoted text and what's new text.
- pseut 14y agoSmartphones too. I top-post from my iPhone, bottom-post everywhere else.
- dredmorbius 14y agoWhich utterly breaks for those who read the thread on a text-only mailer (e.g.: mutt).
- InclinedPlane 14y ago"Doc, it hurts when I go like this." "Then stop going like that."
- dredmorbius 14y agoOr any mailer which doesn't present the highly-styled formatting of Microsoft Outlook as created by the author. Which would be, again, any text-based client, many mobile mail clients, and others. Pretty much anything but Microsoft Outlook. Other enterprise clients are similarly bad. Lotus Notes, and others (though these are the two most commonly found ones). Straight text is much more fungible and portable than highly-specified formats. There's a reason technical email etiquette and formatting rules emerged, though yes, contemporary business and non-technical use is diverging from these practices.
- lutusp 14y ago> There's another reason bottom- (or interspersed) posting does not work well in corporate email chains: Outlook flatly doesn't support it. Yes, I remember this now. It was an item on a long list of reasons I gave up on Windows years ago. But I'm not sure it counts as a "reason", because it's more an uncorrected defect. Even if you have good arguments to top-post, Outlook takes away your choice. Like Windows itself.