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> I was thinking about an imaginary communication system that would allow for decision making where there were some rules: > [...] > - The reader has to retyp
by u801e 6y ago
> I was thinking about an imaginary communication system that would allow for decision making where there were some rules:
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> - The reader has to retype the original communication themselves before they can respond....
In email (not following Outlook/conversation style) and newsgroups, people would trim the original quoted material down to what they were responding to and then type their responses inline. While that would, in a way, meet that requirement, it could still lead to people responding to selected parts of your message while missing other parts. But, that would allow you to reiterate the points they didn't address in your subsequent response.
- abalashov 6y agoYeah, it's really unfortunate that inline replying effectively died out, replaced by top-posting. I think inline replies, while lending themselves to the selective quotation problem you mention, nevertheless force more careful consideration of the original text.
- Talanes 6y agoI'm not even sure selective quotation is really a problem. Selective replying happens regardless of whether they are quoting or not, but is just more explicit when they are documenting which parts they reply to.
- sdoering 6y agoI agree. I still do this. But nowadays lot of people feedback that they do not understand my way of replying. Compared to many of my early digital acquaintances I was socialized quite late on the internet starting in 97. Compared to my colleagues I often feel old and out of sync with my style of long form written communication.
- u801e 6y ago> nowadays lot of people feedback that they do not understand my way of replying. Some clients, like Outlook, will actually collapse the original email and only show the top-posted reply. An inline reply would appears as an empty email in their client.
- abalashov 6y agoI have this same problem and would describe it similarly.