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Some versions Microsoft Outlook incorrectly quote bottom-posted e-mails, causing your reply to be lost in the line noise -- it's greyed out, like the quoted tex
by hapless 16y ago
Some versions Microsoft Outlook incorrectly quote bottom-posted e-mails, causing your reply to be lost in the line noise -- it's greyed out, like the quoted text above it. This bug caused me no end of problems until I found out about it, in 2009.
I had repeated customer complaints about "Blank e-mails" or missed content in my inline replies.
Until the very last Outlook user disappears, I can't risk bottom-posting in business correspondence. You can thank Microsoft for destroying the legibility of e-mail threads.
- thwarted 16y agoI "thank" Microsoft for the destruction of a lot of things, more than any other company (maybe there's selection bias there, I work in the same industry they service).
- LiveTheDream 16y agoI always top-post "comments inline below" to avert this problem. Works great.
- 5teev 16y agoIt probably doesn't matter either way, as it doesn't seem like people do more than skim emails. They won't scroll down to read interleaved replies--Outlook/Entourage's text-formatting doesn't help--nor will they even scroll down if your top-post goes past the default view. If you can't say it all in three short paragraphs, you either have to spread it out over a few more focused emails, spoon-feed over IM, or--horror of horrors--meet in person!