[GLLUG] Slightly OT - Netiquette at work

[Jack Bertram]

* David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> [050318 16:36]:
> On Friday, 18 Mar 2005, Jack Bertram wrote:
> >* David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> [050318 16:22]:
> >>On Friday, 18 Mar 2005, Steve Nelson wrote:
> >>>"Everyone else" top-posts, why should I be different?  Please follow
> >>>'the standard'.
> >>The answer as to why you should be different is that it is very
> >>difficult for a top-quoter to respond to an email that makes several
> >>separate substantive points.
> >It's not really:
> >"You make three points.
> >*Time taken for download*.  You're wrong here because...
> >*Point 2*.  Answer follows...
> >*Summary of third*.  Blah blah blah"
> 
> But that's just reinventing interspersed quoting, where it is
> conventional to summarise where appropriate, only more awkwardly in
> that one cannot _not_ summarise where that is best.

Yes, but it's easier to do than to intersperse quoting in Lotus Notes,
for example.

j
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