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> What else should they do? They should do what NNTP & SMTP clients did for years: prefix each line with '> ', prepend a line like 'IshKebab writes:' and place
by zeveb 7y ago
> What else should they do?
They should do what NNTP & SMTP clients did for years: prefix each line with '> ', prepend a line like 'IshKebab writes:' and place the cursor at the end of the quoted material.
- IshKebab 7y agoBut that just means people won't delete any of the quoted message and you'll end up with an entire thread of messages above the actual email, which is going to be very confusing for users.
- zeveb 7y agoI don't think so, because as lazy as people are, they still want their words read, and they excise the irrelevant quoted material to set off their own words better. From experience of the old days, other than a handful of strange people no-one had a problem interleaving context and commentary. It was just the way things work. Top-posting is pure (albeit minor) evil, a tragedy of the commons and a wastage of space. It's also an unforced error: no-one was clamouring for it, but Outlook and Gmail and Notes foisted it upon the world.
- IshKebab 7y agoIn the old days everyone was a computer nerd.