Chen Xiao Fan wrote:
> I like your posting style: context posting. However the email
> clients are not making this easier and this is across Linux
> and Windows. Few people are using context posting since it
> requires more effort on the user' part. I do admire those
> who do this. 

I haven't seen any significant difference in how this works in any 
e-mail client in many years.

I'm not sure what you're referring to about clients making it more 
difficult.

There's only one e-mail client that I know of that makes it difficult 
and that's only when it's in HTML or rich-text modes.  Both of which are 
rarely necessary to get one's point across.

Some really good e-mail clients actually make contextual posting easier 
-- if you highlight the portion of the person's message you wish to 
reply to and then hit the Reply button or keyboard command, only that 
portion of the original message is quoted.

Some clients are getting more intelligent about how people like to 
communicate, and some clients are just adding colors and fonts and 
making communication more difficult by making contextual replies harder 
to do.

I would think that would be enough right there for most people to look 
for a better client, but most don't.  They take the path of least 
resistance and use either whatever is provided by some IT person or came 
with the machine.

This really isn't [EE] at all, so I'm going to stop now unless you move 
it to [OT].  Just not sure if you read [OT], so last reply here.

Nate

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