Paul Hartman <[email protected]> writes: > There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the > "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the > reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. > This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does > show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses > Outlook, anyway) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style > of quoting, believe it or not.
Maybe because it follows more closely (one of) the standard ways of filing correspondence - maintaining a paper file by adding each new document on top on top of the 'pile'.
