• Photuris@lemmy.ml
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    22 days ago

    Microsoft Outlook started this stupid shit.

    Before then, emails (and Usenet posts) were always appended to the bottom, and good netiquette required one to intentionally quote the specific germane lines from the previous message and respond to them inline, point-by-point, for brevity, conciseness, and context, just as God intended.

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      21 days ago

      If God had intended us to communicate with Brevity, he would never have generated the outrageous monstrosity that is the verbose English language.