People,
See inline responses:
On 2018-03-25 22:08, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 17:13 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 03/21/2018 02:52 PM, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > I've worked in seven different organizations, they all happened to use
> > Lotus Notes as their mail system, which also defaults to top posting,
> > but it was a rule in every organization that mail must be top posted.
> > Their view was that having to trawl through mails to find responses is a
> > time waster, therefore people will not be allowed to do it, hence
> > particularly with high level managers, they applied the convention that
> > if you did not top post they wouldn't read your mail. If I'm honest it
>
> I've had situations where I've replied to people at various places and
> received no answer. And when I went to ask them why, they said I just
> sent them an empty email. I asked them to show me so they click on
> the
> email. Of course my text is below the part immediately visible in the
> little preview window, so they assumed that I hadn't written anything.
Some people need educating. You could also insert [See below] at the
top, for the more obtuse readers.
I use the above to make sure people don't miss one or more separate
responses to specific points.
Regards,
Phil.
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Philip Rhoades
PO Box 896
Cowra NSW 2794
Australia
E-mail: phil(a)pricom.com.au