Re: [tlug] OT: Beer

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Scott Robbins writes:

 > I figure that in a business context, it can often make sense.  Jane
 > writes an email, saying, I'm doing this and sends it to Carole and Bob. 
 > Bob is the boss and says, I approve and sends it to his boss.  In this
 > case, his boss sees that Bob's already approved it, so just does a quick
 > scan of the proposal.  Whereas, if he, being very busy, didn't see Bob's
 > approval till the end, it probably is inconvenient. 

Sure, for the particular case you mention.  In fact, such top-posting
is protocol on a lot of patch-review lists used by people who are not
just real, not just smart, but actually Real Smart, too.

But you know what?  If you go back to the paper office, you realize
that the same people who think top-posting is so natural (when it's
enforce by brain-damaged software) didn't have any trouble
distinguishing between a buck slip (the scenario above) and an RFC,
and they sure did make interlinear comments on the RFC as they read
it.