On 10/04/2015 12:20 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 11:48:27AM +1000, Mike Hewitt wrote:
How do you get to edit the email into pieces by moving the cursor into the section of quoted text, inserting a few empty lines and starting to type, remembering to delete all excess quoted material when you've finished replying to anything you want to reply to. this style of quoting (sometimes called interleaved or inline replying) is considered to be correct and polite. top-posting or, worse, bottom-posting is considered both rude and lazy. as is failing to delete excess quoted text. I'm pretty old school too, having been on the Net since 1994 and on BBSs for a number of years before that, so I bring the better habits (I hope) of that era with me. :) Sadly, the uality of user interfaces leaves a bit to be desired. Text mode editors are still the best for formatting email. GUI editors take a certain degree of "beating into submission". Thunderbird isn't too bad, though you have to make sure you've cleared some blank lines before manipulating blocks of text (or you'll screw up formatting). Outlook is, well, 'nuff said, though the worst of all are the mobile clients, where the interface makes it hard to do anything but top post.
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