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Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes: |
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> There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the |
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> "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the |
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> reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. |
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> This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does |
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> show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses |
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> Outlook, anyway) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style |
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> of quoting, believe it or not. |
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Maybe because it follows more closely (one of) the standard ways of |
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filing correspondence - maintaining a paper file by adding each new |
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document on top on top of the 'pile'. |