On 1/29/21 7:06 AM, George N. White III wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 at 06:31, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:On Fri, 2021-01-29 at 17:59 +1030, Tim via users wrote:> On Thu, 2021-01-28 at 16:49 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:[...] > Or, put another way, 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. Many people's first email user agent is MS Outlook which encourages top posting by opening a blank section above the quoted message. When Outlook was introduced at work I had to put a line at the top: "See responses below" or people would think I had made an empty reply.
That's a good solution. I've run into that before too. I asked someone at a company why they didn't answer my email and they said it was "empty". I guess they just looked at the preview or something. (Although of course my followup question should have been, why didn't you let me know, since I'm clearly trying to communicate?)
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