Re: lilypond-devel email style

Kevin Barry <[email protected]> writes:

>> We need to be able to resist Google. You may observe in real time how
>> ready they are to comply with an authoritarian regime: It has long been
>> extremely dangerous how much of a chokehold they have on digital
>> ecosystems. Being complacent with “everyone uses Google, so let’s have
>> it their way” is not a tenable position.
>
> Please let's not turn this into a political discussion. As Luca
> pointed out, it's not just Google: most of the popular email clients
> behave the same way.

Most of the popular email clients leave the cursor at the start of the
quoted passage so that you can then _go_ _down_ and reply to the points
you want to refer to and _delete_ the others.

That is the point of not leaving the cursor at the bottom in the first
place: you are not supposed to keep everything quoted that isn't
relevant.  The work of creating your reply to the salient points and
remove the others starts at the top.

-- 
David Kastrup