Steve Holdoway wrote:
On Wed, February 16, 2005 10:33 am, Derek Smithies said:There are, I am told, two basic styles of replying to an email
a)delete none/some/most of the email being replied to, and intersperse comments at (seemingly) random positions in the result.
b)delete none/some/most (usually none) of the email being replied to, and place all reply text at the head of the email.
I'm relaxed about either approach, so long as I can get the gist of the reply in the first screen-full. It irks me having to move my fingers in order to decide that I don't want to read this reply after all. So, please either follow Jim's advice, and prune the quotes before interspersing comments, or use Derek's preferred approach (b). I don't mind which.
Don't make 200 people trawl down through your reply, in a vain search for a pearl of wisdom. By one means or another, get the guts of it into the first 20 lines or so.
Douglas.
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