Bottom posting v top posting

[Martin Trautmann]

On 18-05-15 14:37, tech-lists wrote:
> 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

Strange - I do use 5.403. This version offers "Nachrichten gruppieren":
Nachrichten eines Diskussionsstranges zusammenfassen. ("group messages
by subject).

This is exactly at this setting position as
<https://k9mail.github.io/documentation/settings/global.html> names as
"Threaded View". But threaded to me is a tree with hierarchy, not just
group messages by subject.

> 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.

Please explain what threading meens to you. Thunderbird or mutt support
excellent threading. K-9 here doesn't.

>> 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.

Who would do inline quoting from multiple messages? That would be
absurd, since replying to multiple messages with proper threading would
be to reply to those messages separately.

- Martin

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