-=> On 07-24-19 17:13, echicken wrote to Nightfox <=-

 ec> In other forums, quoting tends to establish who the reply is
 ec> (primarily) intended for.  As in, I quote
 ec> your message and then add my own comments below, so I'm essentially
 ec> writing back to you.  Of course there
 ec> as well as here, other people are welcome to chime in.

I am known to quote multiple people in the same post and make reference to
them.  Done that on newsgroups, mailing lists and web forum posts - the latter
often have really good quoting tools with excellent attribution, if a bit
clunky to access (a clickfest  ).  I've even quoted multiple on a BBS post,
and it works, because of the extra attribution (quoting headers and initialed
quotes).  BBS quoting is probably midway between Usenet and web forum quoting
in its clarity, though somewhat software dependent.  One thing Multimail
doesn't do that Bluewave did is nest multiple quotes.  While it looks cleaner
this way, it does make it harder to establish the order of who said what, when.

 Ni> thing I've noticed happening more often lately is people replying and not
 Ni> quoting, and sometimes it's really hard to remember what they're talking

 ec> I'm not so bothered by that as long as there's some kind of summary /
 ec> something to jog my memory, but
 ec> more than often that's missing too.

Something to establish context - a summary works for me too.

 ec> Of course there's the flip side, people quoting an entire message
 ec> (often including nested quotes) and
 ec> then adding their two cents in one line at the bottom - or worse, at
 ec> the top.

Or just adding:

"Me too"

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