"Edward Taylor" manchicago@hotmail.com writes:
My issue with writing emails above what you are replying to is tat people say it "disturbs the flow of reading" well my answer is simple - I am not using the replied email as a crib. I expect you to have read the previous email, and I only include it there incase you have not.
I read huge numbers of mail and news messages every day. While I will often have read the predecessor of any given message there's a good chance I won't have *just* read it, and thus won't have it in mind. I don't think this is particularly atypical.
Inline quoting means that the context is immediately available, in natural reading order, in a single pass through the message. But having the quoted material lurking somewhere off the bottom of the screen is little more use than pressing '^' to see the predecessor directly - you have to stop, look elsewhere, stop again, find where you'd got to. Now multiply this delay by the number of readers, and consider how much of other people's time you are wasting (or how many people are not bothering to read your messages because you won't quote properly).