Nicholas Thompson wrote: > Is there any way, other than NOT using reply and quoting by hand, to avoid > this effect? > er. is that to say you don't like minimalistic quoting by hand? I tend to prefer that because then it absolutely clear what is being responded to, and if the quoting is inadequate then readers can rightly complain too. In this case I'm not quoting the part describing "this effect" because I'm not sure what the effect is. I mean, a quote from a digest e-mail ought to be complete, if left untouched, right? Now, I don't prefer but also don't strongly object to such quoting. I does at least communicate that the particular reader is reading in batch which is potentially a useful insight to have about a correspondent. If someone feels they are being taken out of context, they can always pull URLs from the archive to prove it.
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