Graham Murray wrote: > Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> writes: > > >> There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the >> "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the >> reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. >> This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does >> show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses >> Outlook, anyway) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style >> of quoting, believe it or not. >> > > Maybe because it follows more closely (one of) the standard ways of > filing correspondence - maintaining a paper file by adding each new > document on top on top of the 'pile'. > > >
So that's why when I need to know the history of a conversation that I have to flip that pile of papers over and start from the bottom. I always wondered why that was. It made more work then, it still does. Makes perfect sense. Dale :-) :-)
