Reply to post: Re: Top-posting makes sense unless you're reading your emails weirdly

A real head-scratcher: Tech support called in because emails 'aren't showing timestamps'

Stevie

Re: Top-posting makes sense unless you're reading your emails weirdly

"You have to be able to quote, that is, delete most part of the original message and reply to single sentences."

Nobody does this. Nobody needs to because of the advanced GUI presentation clients and cut'n'paste mechanisms available it today's computers, and real-world e-mail chains must preserve the entire text of the preceding messages as chain-of-evidence for post mortem purposes.

Your model might, just might, be appropriate for the sorts of messages people now simply text one another. If whatever it is warrants a full email response, the full context must be preserved for the next person and after a few goes-round no-one will want to scroll down to add their two cents to the bogroll.

Bottom quoting adds work for no real-world net gain.

In short, it is an outmoded model for command-line mailx respondents who refuse to enter the 21st century.

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