You can come back out from under your desk, now. I want to hide under there. A couple thoughts:
Sometimes I scroll through email conversations on the iPhone---I use the "next message" button as a last resort. I find that if quotes are not trimmed, then it does not matter whether they are at the top or the bottom of an email: there is a lot to scroll through. So when other iPhone users object to replying under a trimmed reply, I am not sympathetic. Do you remember Google Wave? It's been a long time since I watched a demo, but ISTR you could click where you wanted to insert a reply and start typing, thus creating an "inline" reply. It looked like they had thought about the role of quotation in email and made a very thoughtful design. It seems to me that an email client should smooth over the differences between top- and bottom-posting and even merge mails from a thread into an overview that suppresses the text duplicated by quotations. I once set out to prototype such a view, but I wasn't too happy with the way text marched toward the right margin, so I would take a different approach, today. Here is the conversation I produced an overview for, http://sigonella.whitecoralislands.com/~dyoung/summary/link-sets.discuss and here is the overview, http://sigonella.whitecoralislands.com/~dyoung/summary/summary.html . If you insist on ASCII art, here is the same overview in text, http://sigonella.whitecoralislands.com/~dyoung/summary/link-sets.discussion-summary Dave -- David Young dyo...@pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981
