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In article <slrni5k050.6eb.BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com>, BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com () writes:
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>I'm not bothered by "quoted pukeable" as much as Brian is, but it can be
>distracting and annoying in its extreme forms, especially when folks don't
>trim and bottom-post.
>
>>Take a giant step into the twenty-first century!
>>
>
>When I took a VMS job in a Windows-centric shop, I was taken to task by the
>Windows weenies and non-IT types, when I insisted on replying to emails on
>Outhouse using fixed-width font, trimming, and bottom-posting.  I was even
>accused by one administrative business type of being "rude" by doing so!
>[...]

Top posting is an abomination that dwarfs quoted-pukeable.  There's no way
to follow a conversation with idiots that top post.

I've been working on a project now for about 6 month.  All of the emails I
receive are MIME.  I need to pass them to my Mac or Linux to read them.  I
then have to reformat them because people can't recall where the carriage
return key is on their keyboards.  To add insult to the injury, the message
is amlost always top posted including a history of the last umpteen email
exchanges.  I take the time to trim and clean it all up only to get the
latest replies merged back into the old stream.  It's slowed the progress
of the project significantly and many issues have escaped notice because of
this practice.  

Do/did people send old copies of letters when they replied via snail mail?
Fuck no.  
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