In the context of a long thread about style and readability[*] Joel M. Halpern
summarized:
I do want to re-iterate two points I have seen that are important. Both are
relevant no matter what style of posting you like.
1) People need to read the whole email before composing their
I tend to assume that people write emails the way they would like to
read them.
Thus, if I am writing an email with a lot of detailed context from a
previous message, I include the revelant portions of the message, and
reply in line.
However, when I am writing A reply that does not require
On Sep 24, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
I tend to assume that people write emails the way they would like to read
them.
Thus, if I am writing an email with a lot of detailed context from a previous
message, I include the revelant portions of the message, and reply in line.
