RE: New rules for business correspondence

["Peter Hirons" <peter -at- galley -dot- ie>]

I have to strongly disagree with that.  I've been using e-mail (note the
hyphen) since the very early days and often in environments where it was
necessary to include the full chain of correspondence for completeness or
when you are forwarding to someone new so that they have the background.
For this, top-posting is the only way to ensure that the recipient
doesn't have to dig down (possibly many) screens-full to get to the new
information.

Also, these days, most people use intelligent mail clients that thread
mail so that the previous mail is immediately to hand so all they need is
the latest contribution to the thread.  Include a trimmed quotation if
there is any need to specify which part of the previous message you are
replying to.

Bottom posting is so last century :-)

Peter

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Sandy Harris
Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 2:44 AM
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Subject: Re: New rules for business correspondence

snip

It does depend on your market (unfortunately, in my view), but I'd say
the second thing to learn about email style is never to top-post. Replies
go after quoted text.


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