2 Sep
2025
2 Sep
'25
6:05 p.m.
While I don't know the reasons people had when they posted replies in that list, inserting replies in the middle of an HTML-formatted message is definitely not a non-hurdle task, and you often end up with a subpar result compared to plain text. This definitely could be a strong contributing factor in choosing the format of a reply.
As I explained already, it is a nonissue to quote replies with HTML-based clients, and in fact the same as plain text these days. I'll also emphasise again that I don't think speculating why people in another list are not quote-replying each as is the practice in this list contributes to an informed discussion on the trade-off because we just don't know. Claudio