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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by jlgaddis on Saturday May 14, 2016 @09:34AM (#11696035)
This is one of my two biggest pet peeves when it comes to e-mail.

Top posting is the other.

> E-Mail before we lost the "text should be text and not goddamn HTML" war.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't... by ams6110 on Saturday May 14, 2016 @02:11PM (#11697345)
I have mostly succumbed to top-posting, but I do generally try to trim the quoted message history to only the one I'm responding to. That way in a long thread I don't end up sending a ten-page message that only include one sentence of new content.
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