[TriLUG] Rant: Please trim responses

[M. Mueller (bhu5nji)]

On Wednesday 20 March 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote:

> is this one of those "No we are not elitist why do you ask PEON??"
> things??

perhaps a "when in Rome, do as the Romans do" thing;  throughout the day 
today I looked at things through my new pair of 
top/bottom/context/snip/no-snip glasses;   I found:

a) email for business where there are agreements being made, the full trail 
with no snipping is a defense mechanism; there's no list to refer back to in 
this mode of operation, so carrying the full load everywhere helps those that 
are being brought into the discussion

b) on lists, snipping is an advantage because there's less clutter; I can see 
this working especially well when the subject matter gets dense

c) top/bottom/context: I saw no strong pattern on the several lists to which 
I'm subscribed

Is the "reply at the bottom" a western cultural thing because we read top to 
bottom and left to right?  Reply at the top is a survival thing - get your 
message out in the first sentence and hope your reader stays with you.  
Context replies are very good for responses to multi-topic emails.

-- 
Mike  M.

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