I that Outlook & Co are guilty. That and the fact that few people even
think about this. Even today that makes sense, because it provides an
exact context. Without that, you wouldn't be able to really understand
what exactly a person is referring to. Also, it helps people to
structure their thoughts better.
If the above paragraph doesn't make sense to you, see it interleaved
below for enlightenment. ;)
Am 17.08.2012 07:19, schrieb Dennis Lee Bieber:
I also tend to blame M$ (Outlook and variants) for this tendency to
quote everything and top-post -- Outlook makes it almost impossible
to do a trim&interleave response style.
I that Outlook & Co are guilty. That and the fact that few people even
think about this.
Including everything as a trailing quote may be okay in an office
environment, where it serves more as a photocopy included with an paper
mail response. But anyone "raised" on 2400bps dial-up on a service that
charged by the minute (GEnie, Compuserve, et al) rapidly learned to use
as a log-in/pull/log-off/read-reply/log-in/send system, and to remove as
much $$ quoted text as possible.
Even today that makes sense, because it provides an exact context.
Without that, you wouldn't be able to really understand what exactly a
person is referring to. Also, it helps people to structure their
thoughts better.
I tend to disagree with the bandwidth argument, which is obsolete. To
me, it's more about communication efficiency and it's only one possible
way to achieve that.
Uli
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