Allegedly, on or about 17 May 2018, stan sent:
Yeah, it's exactly the opposite of business communications,
where
everyone just puts their response at the top, and the whole chain is
in the message below. There, everyone is in the loop, so it makes
more sense to just put the response at the top.
It's almost essential in the business world, because they're not using
list servers. Without doing all that reply on top of reply stapling,
or using a list server, only two people can email back and forth, and
see all the messages in the chain. Try including a third person, and
the only way for them to keep track, is to include all the prior
messages with every reply. It's very messy and inefficient, and
horrendously storage space wasting when people incorporate huge
attachments. It's yet another reason why businesses are eschewing
email for other kinds of collaboration software, instead (which bring
in their own sets of logistical and user-education nightmares).
I suppose that style would work in mailing lists, also, but it would
be a lot more traffic, and people who pop in on the middle of a
conversation would have to do a lot of work to come up to speed.
It's an extraordinarily bad way of doing things for lists like this.
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Programmers who can't take criticisms shouldn't release software that invites
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