+1 -- Ross Dakin rossda...@gmail.com (858) 699-2190
> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: Monday, May 07, 2012 4:44 PM > To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: RE: E-Mail client guidelines on the mailing list > > >> - 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. > > --Alex > >
