Bottom posting v top posting

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> [05-16-18 20:03]:
 [...]
> Of course, in this case I could have simply replied to your message
> and let tech-lists' quote be >>, but what if you hadn't quoted the
> relevant part of the earlier message? You'd really prefer to make
> several separate related replies one right after the other on the
> same topic, rather than one reply with all your comments?
> 
> Sure, a threaded view will have to choose only one of the messages
> being replied to, but it's hard to see that as a major problem.
> A lot of mailers don't even follow the references and just group
> everything with the same subject into one thread, so it's not
> like most people scrutinize the details of the thread tree.

a big *plus* for mutt, as all mail clients are not created equal(ly).  but
mutt is the "head of the class".

not that I am biased after 20+ years, thankyou Mr. Elkins
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