Bottom posting v top posting

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On 13/05/2018 18:15, Martin Trautmann wrote:
> IBTD. Major e-mail tools, such as outlook, failed to support proper threading. Writing on a smartphone here, I'm not even aware of an app with threading.

You're using K-9 mail which has apparently supported threading since 
4.390-beta, see 
http://grokbase.com/t/gg/k-9-mail/135pt36a12/conversation-threaded-view/oldest

I must admit that I don't know of an MUA that does not have threading 
capability in 2018. But I know nothing about outlook.

> But are we still discussing bottom vs. top quoting? The here recommended style to me is known as INLINE QUOTING, where you do trim the quoting to the few lines which will help to understand the context of a discussion.

Oh I do that as well. I said:

>> Personally, if I need to quote someone back to themselves, I'll do it inline. 

But inline quoting has its own issues. Multiple inline quotes from 
multiple messages can get messy. IMOHO messier than just bottom posting, 
which is at least logically chronological.

-- 
J.