Ian Pine wrote, On 5/01/10 11:58:
In my opinion, generally, I think that as a thread builds up, old
stuff should be 'pushed down' with the latest comment going in at the
top (like this message); this means that I don't have to scroll
through a lengthening chunk of everything I've previously read to get
to the latest reply - BUT if the last message contains a number of
points being responded to individually, the responses should be
embedded, with each response coming after the original question; in
this case I find that the ">" at the start of original lines is enough
to separate them from new comments. I also prefer to do all emailing
in plain text - I don't trust opening HTML content!
Sorry Tony, I guess it's just what I've always been used to, rather
than right or wrong.
Yes but that is hopeless when there are threads. They simply cannot be
used except manually!
There should *never* be an ever increasing length of quoting. All one
needs to do is snip older or no longer relevant comments (as I have
done now and always *try* to do). These don't necessarily need to be at
the beginning of course.
Whatever is done we must *all* follow the same method otherwise it gets
ridiculous (as now).
Usnet use inline so why not here?
Tony
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