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>>> [...] that I'd been doing email since before he was born :)
>> It _is_ a hard argument to counter. :-)
> Although it's rather silly b& just because something's been done for
> a long time doesn't necessarily make it good.  Or bad.

True.  Silly as an argument for or against the position.  Not silly at
all as a rebuttal to someone who's trying to cite length of experience
as support for a position.

>> I also have never had anyone provide a counter-argument to the
>> points I raise in my blah post on untrimmed top-posting [...]
> I could probably come up with my own list; not least is the one that
> is not infrequently missed - an increasingly long top-posting chain
> often includes stuff in the tail that really shouldn't be included in
> emails to the current set of recipients.

True!  I don't think I've ever seen that one before, and certainly
haven't come up with it myself, probably in large part because I do
comparatively little email in contexts where "shouldn't be included" is
even a thing - nor, actually, very much where the list of recipients
gets added to significantly over time.

I also don't do all that much email in contexts where untrimmed
top-posting is very common - though it is, sadly, more and more
infesting the contexts I do hang out in.  Between the sender coming
across as arrogant and the difficulty of reading it, I sometimes see
such a message and, after the first glance, ditch it with a thought
that, if put into words, would be something like "meh, another
top-post, probably untrimmed, unlikely to be worth the effort".

> Which sometimes makes PHBs sit up and pay more attention than they
> would otherwise.

And a sad commentary on our society it is that that can get managers'
attention more than it being time- (and effort-)wasting and coming
across as arrogant.

But then, the existence of PHBs as a thing is itself another sad
commentary on our society.

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