sixpack13 wrote:
> to me it seems completely unnecessary.
> My comment is right under the comment I replied to.
Ed Greshko:
You may think it is unnecessary. However, some people have their
email clients configured to display "unread" messages. When a reply
is sent sometime after the original message the "unread" response
will be displayed, but not the previous messages. So, when the user
sees the response they may not recall what message immediately
precedes.
And there's plenty of people who don't thread messages into any
particular order, just reading them in the order they lobbed in. The
previous message(s) displayed in their mail client is probably a
completely different thread.
Each message really needs to be clearly understandable when reading it
all by itself. That doesn't mean quote the entire message, just enough
to make sense.
I might get hundreds of (not spam) email a day, so will many others on
mailing lists. We're not going to remember all the details from prior
messages. We'll pop back and look when it's really necessary, but not
for every message.
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