OT email response format (was Re: TTL computing)

From: Lawrence Walker <lgwalker_at_mts.net>
Date: Tue Apr 16 05:29:58 2002

 I remember my old Blue Wave offline reader would admonish you if the
reply was more than 50% quote. I vary from top to bottom to interleaved
according to the message. The bottom line is whatever's the best to
communicate the message. Altho unlike this, I do prefer top quoting.

Lawrence

> At 12:48 AM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >> From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
> >
> >> Unfortunately, I don't think Winston said anything
> >> about the inability to format e-mail responses
> >> in conventional style, so we're stuck. "see below, plz."
> >> now induces an immediate "CTRL/D" from my left hand.
> >
> >Okay, so what is the *preferred* method of replying to classiccmp posts?
> >Reply at top? Replay at bottom? Or, embedded comments interspersed
> >throughout the replied-to post? I prefer the latter, more conversational
> >style . . .
>
> You did fine. :-) When I see the entire message quoted
> (with headers) and no white space between the quoted
> text and the new comments, my eyes glaze over.
>
> If there's a relevant passage, quote it, comment on it
> and be done with it. If you think for a moment there's a
> need to quote the entire previous message, then erase it all
> and begin pontificating. Don't do both.
>
> - John
>


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