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In article <i3drnc$hq2$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>On 2010-08-05 02:45, VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article<slrni5k050.6eb.BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com>, BRAD at rabbit.turquoisewitch.com () writes:
>>> {...snip...}
>>>
>>> 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.
>
>It might have helped the project to have found someone
>more professional and open-minded. The way you act does more
>harm to VMS then it helps (VMS). Grow up...

Professional and open-minded?  This from the guy that uses a toy (WEENDOZE)
OS.

What would have helped these projects would have been to be working on the
projects significantly more than wasting countless hours processing emails
and then sifting through the volumes to figure out what one-liner replies
were referring to because of the lack of proper quoting.

When I went off to college, I learned that papers would not be accepted if
sources were not properly quoted.  This helps to provide a quick and exact
way to reference the content quoted within.  The same argument should stand
for professional email exchanges.  When I'm working with people in +/-8hour
or more time zones, wasting a day because of poor email habits does NOT get
the project out the door quickly.

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