I don't understand this, please help me out. To me, the Jeopardy Style of e-mail composition, made popular by Microsoft, is a mess. Imagine trying to tell a new user how to read an e-mail. I envision it would go something like this:
- Go to the bottom of the e-mail.
- Find the beginning of the first e-mail.
- Read the first e-mail.
- Working your way back up, find the beginning of the first reply.
- Read the reply.
- Continue the process of moving up and down throughout the e-mail and it's replies until you have read everything in the order that it was originally written.
Replying to an e-mail would go something like this:
- Try to remember everything you had read before (see previous steps).
- Try to compose your reply in such a fashion that it might be understood without the context added by all of the previous content.
- Of course, all of the previous content, including signatures and disclaimers from previous senders, is included below your message, in reverse chronological order.
Please, please help me understand why this is a "good thing"? Or, is virtually everyone just a Lemming that is following the other Lemmings, not knowing why?
-Bob
