On Sun, 06 Jan 2019, Paco Esteban wrote:
We have threaded mail clients... We know the message content. "No top posting" is from the days of yore, prior to threaded client views.
We do have threaded mail clients. If you add that to a clean conversation it makes mailing lists a pleasant experience, if not is just distracting. I for example end up not even bother reading bad formatted emails (html, repetitive top posting, thread reuse ...). You can say "I'm too old for this shit".
Oh ! I also forgot to mention that there's people that deletes email. Yes, I know, it may seem incredible in this age of excess ... But being subscribed to some mailing lists and with an email account with limited resources (even if they are reasonably big), deleting mailing list emails is more or less normal.
I only keep the threads I'm interested in, and not for long. So having good context and organized on every email on the chain is really nice.
And I promiss I'll not write another "grandpa complains about everything" email today :-P
Cheers,