On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> A lot of email clients are set up by default to put the entire >> message quoted below the new reply. Mine is too.
Judy Perry wrote: > Mine does too (PINE). Manual rearrangement is not trivial.
Precisely.
Readability takes effort, and thereby reduces noise.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com
DISCLAIMER: One of my favorite waste of bandwidth are corporate lawyers so insecure about their job security that they feel they must invent novel ways to inject themselves throughout an organization. In recent years we've seen this in the form of lengthy disclaimers that counsel advises management must be added to all outgoing mail. I'm no legal expert, so never having seen any lawsuit brought to a screeshing halt when the lawyer enters the courtroom shouting "Ah! But your honor, I have this email disclaimer!" may not mean it's entirely stupid. But it does seem unlikely, from any generic logical sense, that the silliness in the wording of such disclaimers would have any practical benefit to anyone but comedy writers. Most such disclaimers basically say that when an employee chooses to send nuclear secrets in open email, the responsibility for the management of that information falls not on the employee but on the unwitting recipient. No, really. Read them, they're pretty funny. Admittedly, in American courts nearly anything is possible, but if only for a good chuckle I would love to read the court transcript for the precendent-setting case presumably giving rise to this trend in which such a bizarre position was actually supported by a court. That is, if there is one.
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