On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 10:50:44AM +0100, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 09:36:10AM +0000, Johannes Thyssen Tishman wrote: > > > > When I reply to an email I do so above the senders message, however I see > > many people in the mailing lists replying below it. Is this the preferred > > way or just preference? Thanks. > > The traditional style is to quote only the parts of the previous message(s) > that you are writing in respose to. > > If you are commenting on several parts of a previous exchange, the convention > would be to offer your own input in several blocks, directly following the > parts you are responding to. > > For whatever reason, Microsoft's Outlook or possibly earlier Microsoft mail > client products dragged in a convention of quoting the whole thread (even > though > those early clients did not in fact have the thread concept) and putting new > text on top.
Of course it had to be Microsoft. > > I think this would point to my preference at least. Cue my 2011 rant about > same, enjoy: > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2011/02/problem-isnt-email-its-microsoft.html Thanks, will check it out :) > > All the best, > Peter > > -- > Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team > https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ > "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" > delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. > -- Johannes Thyssen Tishman E-Mail: johan...@thyssentishman.com Website: thyssentishman.com
