Dave,
The
primary argument in favour of inline responses is that they allow
context to be retained.
Yes. Context is essential to understanding why a comment is being made.
For instance, the poster may support or disagree with a particular
assertion expressed earlier in the discussion.
However, sometimes I see posters on some lists fall back on a simpler
form of retaining context, where the unabridged discussion history gets
quoted on all new messages. I don't know if we slip into this mode out
of convenience or because we somehow assume that the other readers (and
their mail tools) on the list are stateless and have no memory of past
events. The stateless assumption may well be true in some cases though
:-)
I would suggest that being liberal in searching for context and
conservative in providing it would be a better model...
Jari (your resident top-poster. in html. yuck)
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