RE: E-Mail client guidelines on the mailing list

[Edison Su]

+1

> -----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