On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 3:32 AM Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > there's a very good reason why the long-
> > established way to participate in a mailing list is quote the salient
> > bits of the prior email and directly reply to individual sentences or
> > paragraphs right underneath them.  So that readers know what answers go
> > with which questions.
> >
> > It's called interspersed replies.
>

A lot of the big providers have made doing this far more difficult than it
used to be. I have personal experience with Gmail, where I used to be able
to highlight part of the message, and that was all that would be included
in my reply, but that no longer works; the entire message is included and I
have to manually trim it.  Gmail also top posts by default, which may also
account for the increased amount of top-posting we see, particularly if
other large providers are working the same way. In short, it takes a lot
more work than it used to take to do interspersed replies, but it is still
possible if you climb the learning curve and put in a little effort.

--Greg
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