Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

[Dale]

Graham Murray wrote:
> Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.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

:-)  :-)