On 2 Sep 2025 18:29, Claudio DeSouza via Boost wrote:
Notice that the commenters following the first post did not bother to put their replies inline. That hints at the problem - because the rich text formatting of the original message is a pain to work with for the responders.
There's no difference with modern clients to produce quotes between plain text and non-plain text. In summary, in the gmail client (and possibly in most of the others) it is literally the same as what I'm doing to quote you right now. No extra hurdles. If I were to speculate why people are not doing these little quotes of each other in that thread, it is because this type of quote replies are not very popular these days in email communication, but ultimately we are jumping to conclusions about why people are not quoting each other in that thread. The fact is that you perfectly able to do that with no problems.
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 noted in my reply to Vinnie, in that case his HTML formatting broke quotation marks in my reply to him. That example was relatively innocent, but with stuff like code blocks or other advanced formatting, which, apparently, is the reason to use rich text in the first place, this can be much worse.