On Friday 25 November 2005 06:25, Chen Xiao Fan wrote:
> Changed it to [OT] and let's continue there.

interesting war brewing.. hehe..

> 1) I think context posting is the best if it can be easily be done.
> However it is not.

It is easy if you type in your replies while reading the email.. also allows 
you to trim-as-you-go.. but i only do that for mailing lists stuff.. the 
corporate types tend to expect the replies to be in one big message.. i guess 
this stems from traditional mail where replies were on separate sheets of 
paper..

> 2) Bottom-posting is not any better than top-posting.

agreed..

> 3) Outlook and Outlook Express are the de-facto standard. The IT
> administrators are not all stupid by choosing them.

they're not stupid.. but sometimes these decisions are not in their hands.. 
and sometimes they're just lazy.. OE comes free with an installation of 
windows.. installing anything else would require them to justify purchasing 
an alternative to the bean counters, and would also require them to deploy 
and manage another piece of software on top of the microsoft stuff..

> impose it to other users. They are still doing it, however only
> on some unix-centric mailing list which by no means should be the

well.. i think everyone should have the freedom to choose.. i wouldn't impose 
it on others, but i would definitely suggest it.. cause it makes replies 
easier to digest.. i won't need to constantly page-up/down to read the 
replies to the question..

cheers..

with metta,
Shawn Tan.
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