On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:54 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 12/08/2015 19:44, Sven R. Kunze wrote: >> >> On 12.08.2015 18:11, Chris Angelico wrote: >>> >>> (Please don't top-post.) >> >> >> Is this some guideline? I actually quite dislike pick somebody's mail to >> pieces. It actually pulls things out of context. But if this is a rule >> for this, so be it. >> > > The rules here are very simple. Snip what you don't wish to reply to (yes I > know I forget sometimes), intersperse your answers to what you do want to > respond to.
As Mark says, the key is to intersperse your answers with the context. In some email clients, you can highlight a block of text and hit Reply, and it'll quote only that text. (I was so happy when Gmail introduced that feature. It was the one thing I'd been most missing from it.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
