Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 15:16:26 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> omni at omniphile.com 4/21/2005 2:40:39 PM >>>

Deletion occurs.

>For internal mail at a given organization you should follow whatever
>the
>guidelines are for that organization.  A lot of business mail is top
>posted
>to save time and there's no harm done since they generally aren't
>involved
>conversations with many participants.  They are requests and
>answers
>between two people and usually don't go back and forth much.

But when internat email involves more than two people and it goes on
and on...  I've seen it, it ain't pretty.

However, between people... e.g.  "Where's the Poindexter file?" it's
fine.

> On
>the
>internet in usenet news and on mailing lists things are very
>different...and so are the accepted practices.
>
>If you want a truely impossible to read thread try one where some
>top-post,
>some bottom-post, some post interleaved, and some post in
>HTML....I've
>actually seen this happen and it was nearly impossible to read.

Sounds like bad acid...

mjw