Bad habit: Top-quoteing while replying to mails.

[Guest]

In every forum, mailinglist and discussion group, there is almost always an
unwritten rule about "topquoteing". That is when your answer comes before
what you are quoteing. A quote should always come first, and then your
answer, and that goes for replying mails as well. The defualt "rule" when
replying in outlook, is that your message goes first, and then the "original
message" comes after. It really should be the other way around.

Alse when pressing reply, the old messages should get ">" or some other
indicator at the start of each line, and there already were an indicator like
that in the message body, the text should turn into antoher color, since that
would indicate that this mail had already been answerd, and the color would
then seperate older qoteings.

And for those of us who are active in malinglist, should have the option to
make emails with the same message-head grouped by threads. Just like gmail
does.

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[Jezebel]

Completely disagree. Answer at the top is much simpler, especially for any
thread that goes beyond a single response (ie any interesting one).

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

In all but one mailing list I'm on, top quoting is by far the most
frequently used quoting style - proper trimming and using a good quoting
style (so the quotes come from the correct person) is much more important.
Top quoting is so much faster - and if you forget the subject of the
message, you can scroll down to refresh your memory instead of needing to
re-read it before reading the reply.

You can configure outlook to do > but it only works for plain text, not html
messages. Look in the tools, options menu.

What version of outlook do you use? Outlook will group messages by
conversation but you need to use outlook 2003 for best results and it works
best with messages sent using outlook.