On Sun, 3 Feb 2019 21:17:26 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> What ever became of the venerable practice of interleaving replies close to >> the paragraphs to which they refer > >B0rken e-mail software that makes difficult to DTRT, and, in some cases, >management that actually directs doing the wrong thing. > Indeed. Some prohibit editing quoted text, deeming it a form of forgery.
That leads to a pernicious accumulation of footers and a secular bloat of text. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
