On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 at 18:43:52 -0500, Dan Knight remarked:
[...snip...]
>--> Our Research
>
>Remember the issue of quoting the entire original message? Well it turns
>out that almost everyone who does that is a top poster. They use the
>default setting on their email client, they don't take the time to quote
>selectively, and they fill digests with massive quantities of
>unnecessarily quoted content.
[...snip...]
I am frequently, but not exclusively, a top quoter, not for any of the
reasons (or effects) cited, but because I generally prefer to respond to a
cohesive message with a cohesive reply. The interlineated mode of response
not only chops up the original writer's thought, but also disrupts the
development of my own presentation. Thus, I prefer to use top quoting in
response to single-topic messages and to use interlineated quoting or
separate messages to respond to multi-topic messages (such as meeting
minutes).
Having said that, I will also note that the technology involved
significantly affects the mode of response. The mail client I am currently
using, Eudora Pro 3.0, is rather deficient in its options for response
composition. I must hand craft the citation line. I have no choice in line
width or delimiter in quoted text. When I enter the reply mode the entire
message is selected; a careless keystroke will delete the entire response.
I'm using it because it came 'free' in a bunch of other stuff I collected
in a yard sale and because it works fairly briskly on my Quadra 605
(68040/33; 36MB RAM; DSL). I'd be interested in opinions about other mail
clients suitable for this platform.
Sp00ky
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