Sean Miller wrote:
> [...]
> I have always tried to quote only the bare minimum that's required to
> put my comments in context and I have great difficulty understanding why
> others do not appear to feel it's sensible to do the same.
Hello, Sean.
I agree with you, but I also think it's important to denote with e.g.
[...] what you've deleted from the message you're quoting to make it
clear that you're not quoting the entire message.
I believe that 'top' quoting arises from business practice where it's
important to keep an audit trail of correspondence and, like in many
computing activities, the paper equivalent has just been implemented
electronically. It's interesting that, even now, paper documents have
legal status that their electronic equivalents do not share!
I've encountered the opposite problem, where people don't quote the
message that they're replying to at all ;-)
Tony.
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