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My personal rule, for what it's worth, is that if someone sends me a plain text message, my reply is inline, because I assume that anyone knowledgeable enough t
by bscphil 3y ago
My personal rule, for what it's worth, is that if someone sends me a plain text message, my reply is inline, because I assume that anyone knowledgeable enough to shift the default from HTML-encoded to text is going to want that. For everyone else, I usually top-reply.
Of course, technology adjacent mailing lists are almost always text based, and I don't know of any where top posting is the norm, so I reply inline to mailing list posts as well.
- plorkyeran 3y agoTop-posting in reply to HTML emails and bottom-posting with trimming (or inline) to plain-text emails is indeed a pretty good heuristic for what the person you're replying to would most like.
- xigoi 3y agoBe aware that some e-mail clients automatically send plain text if no formatting is used.