> -----Original Message----- > From: Alex Huang [mailto:alex.hu...@citrix.com] > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 5:14 AM > 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
Couldn't agree more. I would even question why plain text is so sacrosanct in these days where mime/html email clients are standard. Archiving and searching isn't an issue either. Ram
