FWIW, the informal consensus that seems to have developed here over the years is (1) snip all the irrelevant portions of the post you are replying to and (2) reply at the bottom.
I replied:
...which is kind of strange. I typically see snipping and bottom-posting on Usenet and in most e-mail lists, but at every corporate job I've worked (and I worked quite a few as a temp), you never snip anything from an email and you always reply at the top.
Bryon responded:
Yep, I've noticed the same thing. People familiar with Usenet and email
lists are generally quite sophisticated about snipping, keeping the attributions
straight, and replying in-line, but most other people, even tech-savvy ones,
are usually content to just stick a reply on top, and leave a chain of replies
below it. This used to bug me a lot, since it makes communications less clear
of what exactly they are replying to, but I've given up on worrying about it.
In at least a couple of the jobs, I mentioned the idea of snipping and bottom posting and was told it was against corporate policy (not at my current job). The rationale was that they wanted each email to contain a complete archive of the discussion up to that point to make sure that someone jumping in mid-conversation would be able to figure out what had happened up to that point, but that anyone who had been following the conversation would not have to scroll down to the bottom to get to the most current info. It's interesting to note that both LotusNotes and Outlook default to putting quoted info at the bottom and having new info put in at the top of an email.
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