In my opinion, generally, I think that as a thread builds up, old stuff
should be 'pushed down' with the latest comment going in at the top (like
this message); this means that I don't have to scroll through a lengthening
chunk of everything I've previously read to get to the latest reply - BUT if
the last message contains a number of points being responded to
individually, the responses should be embedded, with each response coming
after the original question; in this case I find that the ">" at the start
of original lines is enough to separate them from new comments. I also
prefer to do all emailing in plain text - I don't trust opening HTML
content!
Sorry Tony, I guess it's just what I've always been used to, rather than
right or wrong.
Ian.
P.S. Another fascinating issue of QL Today - I devoured it all on the day it
arrived (yesterday).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Firshman" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 2:08 PM
Subject: [Ql-Users] Message formatting
I think mailing lists like this need in-line quoting. The vast majority do
use this, and good mailers like Thunderbird do this by default.
However some users append the "Original message" under the reply. M$
Outlook (and Express) mailers unfortunately do this by default.
This makes it look pretty bad, especially in a reply. Also the "Original
message" includes an in-line quoted message with all the correct indents,
but now without the extra indent, making it unusable in further in-line
replies.
What do others think?
Tony
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