On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 14:01, Heiko Baums <li...@baums-on-web.de> wrote: > E-mail applications, particularly Google Mail, don't always follow the > common standards. So if Google Mail doesn't respect the Netiquette and > the common internet standards, you should interfere and refinish what > it does automatically or use an e-mail application which do respect > the standards. It's pretty easy.
I don't see that Gmail does anything wrong. It starts you off at the top of the email, yes — this lets you select what quoted material you wish to keep, because Gmail can't possibly know what you want to respond to. Perhaps Gmail could start you off at the bottom of the email, or not quote anything by default and just present you with a blank slate, but either of these ends up requiring more effort than the default behaviour. This is a purely a matter of netiquette, and can't be blamed on the application. ~Celti
