I've said this before. On this issue I agree with Saul. Email was used in a different way in the past. It was certainly a substantially more byte-efficient way that what is currently done. However the vast majority of email use is now gmail or outlook (and outlook is _far_ worsem their reply management is just horrible), so it seems pointless to me that we should insist that we should do the old thing, because the old ways were better. Mind you this is not because they weren't better, they most certainly were better, but because the world has once again chosen VHS, and insisting on using only our betamax tapes is difficult to justify as good use of our collective time.
Btw, if I were on my phone, the manipulation necessary to drop the reply block would have taken substantially longer than typing the message itself. L -- Luca Fascione
