[HPFGU-Feedback] Mail Formats (was Re: An Elfly Reminder)

[Jordan Abel]

> Dan T.:
> I've always regarded one of the strong points in favor of
> interleaved posting as being that it encourages *good* organization,

Random832:
It encourages organization, I won't dispute that. However, it is my
opinion that the sort of organization it encourages is not
particularly good at all. In my opinion, a message should be a
coherent whole, not a bunch of individual one- or two-sentence sound
bytes, each being a minimal reply to one or two particular sentences
in the original, with no sense of connection between the responses and
no acknowledgement of the connection (if there was any) between the
points being addressed. Interleaved posting encourages (if not
requires) sloppy composition. It forces you to put your replies in
essentially the same order as the original points, even when a
different order might flow more naturally. A style without any direct
(or at least without any _block_) quoting would allow more thought to
be given to the organization of a post.

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Random832