On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 17:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 03/21/2018 02:52 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
I've worked in seven different organizations, they all happened to use Lotus Notes as their mail system, which also defaults to top posting, but it was a rule in every organization that mail must be top posted. Their view was that having to trawl through mails to find responses is a time waster, therefore people will not be allowed to do it, hence particularly with high level managers, they applied the convention that if you did not top post they wouldn't read your mail. If I'm honest it
I've had situations where I've replied to people at various places and received no answer. And when I went to ask them why, they said I just sent them an empty email. I asked them to show me so they click on the email. Of course my text is below the part immediately visible in the little preview window, so they assumed that I hadn't written anything.
I'd also point out that the 'no top-posting' guideline is specifically for mailing lists. I frequently top-post in personal replies using the Gmail web client.
poc