Response interleaved below (you'll see at the end why I said this here): On Mon, 2021-02-15 at 11:18 +1300, Kiwi Rider via evolution-list wrote: > Patrick, while I agree that the form of quoting you prefer seems > naturally better
I agree. That, and trimming follow-ups. > for quite some time now the form that Daniel Caron > used is the most common. I agree, with great sadness ;^) (ah, also for the days of ASCII emoticons, not that I ever used them that often). > Most people [top post] and > the few of us who normally don't are disappearing. Except maybe in history books or old email and Usenet archives. > For the same reason I gave up the fight against HTML in email some 20 > years back. I remember about 20 years ago informing one person by sending them the voluminous HTML source (a few KB worth) for the email he sent me in which he wrote only a single short sentence, showing him all the unnecessary stuff his email client included in HTML email just for his one little sentence. > A number of email clients make it harder to quote properly, > especially > those on Android it seems, and probably a number of Windows clients. This is the scariest thing for me, and what motivated me to respond to this email (merely indulging in nostalgia wasn't enough). I once replied to a prospective employer who then asked me why I sent them a blank email. Turns out their email client had collapsed everything in my response including and below the reply mark, which is of course (being a diligent in-line responder) where I had put all my responses. After that, I always top-post a salutation together with a note that my response is below (except for this list since it is populated by in- line non-HTML responders, except for just this time to illustrate this point). That's when I realized that top-posting had taken over the email world. Reports of methods for thwarting such email client behavior with respect to in-line replying are welcome (this is the closest I get in this email to relevance to the charter of this list). -- Robert McDonald _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
