Please forgive my forwardness, but that logically makes no sense...
We are talking about an email... NOT a book. That is just silly.
Then tell me what's the use of continuously sending emails around which no-one ever reads again?
No one wants to re-read the email they just wrote and I can not imagine anyone wanting to scroll down past the text THEY wrote and already read. Why would they want to do that all over again, over and over, for as long as the correspondence carries on?
That just my point: Remove the latter and reply to the questions asked. Add you reply under the question and end with your signature under the mail.
I have not come across any other mail client that does this. It just does not make sense.
Maybe I'm too old, but in the old FIDO days all the clients started the reply under the quoted text. In the early days of the internet clients like
mutt,
pine and
eudora did the same. It's just that those amateurs from Redmond think that they know best and poisoned emailing with Outlook and Outlook Express which introduced top replying. Later other clients introduced this as well, because people where used to this.
Normal clients like Thunderbird, Evolution, Groupwise and Eudora (which is now Thunderbird by the way) still have the option to reply under the quoted text.
The only reason you even have the past conversations remain there is for reference. So if you need to remember something that has already been said, you can scroll down and read the past.
BS! People just add something, they never scroll down to read it. They only start whining when their mailbox is full. For reference you look at previous send or received emails in your mailbox.
To give you an idea: I still almost have my email (send and received) from 1998 till now. And because I mail in plain-text the size of an email is also about 85% smaller.
Regardless, thank you for the link. It should solve my problem, and I agree what most say in that post... it seems to be a matter of preference.
Your welcome. But if I receive an email from you and I have to send you a reply, don't be surprised when most of the original message is gone and you will just see the questions and answers, just like this post: A reply
under each item.
