[Gllug] Threaded email clients

[Simon Morris]

On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 08:57 +0100, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Wed 07 Sep, Wiehe, Simon wrote:
> 
> >
> > Out of courtesy I do not top post on this list but in the working
> environment
> > there are a lot of benefits to top posting and not editing. As a
> manager I can
> > join a mail thread at any point and be able to see the history
> without having 40
> > emails to read.
> 
>    Does this mean that you prefer to see all 40 emails included in the
> one
> you happen to look at? This would assume that each email includes
> every
> previous email from the same thread.
> 

...and with top posting it makes it very difficult to attribute who said
what and when.

How much use is a long top posted email when you have to read it from
the bottom up (in chunks) and then sort out who wrote each chunk

Thanks

~sm
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