Re: E-Mail client guidelines on the mailing list

[John Kinsella]

+1

On May 7, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Alex Huang wrote:
>>> - No top-quoting, only bottom quoting or in-line
> 
> I agree with most of these guidelines.  I can see most of them makes sense 
> for plain text reading in emails/archives and on phones.  The only one I have 
> a problem with is bottom-quoting.  With most email clients supporting 
> threading nowadays, it is faster for readers or followers of a thread to do 
> top-quoting.  I think if you have specific items that you're answering to 
> then you should trim and do in-line.  This email, for example, to me is 
> in-line with one item.  If you are replying to an email as a whole, then you 
> should simply top-quote.  For the people who are reading archives, it's not 
> too much trouble to follow in reverse but for people who are actively 
> participating in a conversation, it saves a lot of time not to have to scroll 
> down.