“RE: Replying to Email”

On 7/12/2007, Greg Pierce said:

>The one feature I love best about Mail.app on OS X is that if I
>select text and click reply, the selected text only is quoted.

Mailsmith does that, too. It also has some very nice "rewrap quoted text" features that are really handy when you're replying to multiple sentences from the same paragraph.

(Not trying to sound like I'm advertising for Mailsmith. It happens to be my favorite client, and unfortunately (in this case) it's made by my biggest client.)

>I also think part of the problem is that many people try to jam too
>much in a single email.  When I do have multiple questions for a
>client or someone I expect will not inline reply to me, I try to do
>something clear like an ordered list (1,2,3)

I've tried everything: numbered lists, bullet points, separate messages. For some people, there's just nothing you can do to draw out a complete response.

Seth