On 5/7/05, Sriram Karra <skarra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just to re-iterate SRS' point about value of top posting in corporate
environements...
At work, people top post heavily, and not just PHBs. Selective
quoting (and deleting 'unnecssary stuff') works in a forum like ilugc,
where the entire interested popluace is expected to be following the
discussions on list, and the list is archived anyway.'
Where these assumptions are not valid, top-posting is very handy. To
take an example, let's say a team are discussing a bug in their code,
and after a few mails they realise that it is really a problem in
another subsystem, then it is extremly convenient to just forward a
single email to the relevant team, and have that single email have all
the necessary context and prior debugging that has happened for the
problem.
So, yeah, top-posting is extremely handy in many situations. But
ilugc does *not* present any of them. So do not top post in ilugc :-)
-Karra
