> My message to you is right there in the same thread in my client. Don't send it back to me.
I do inline replies and all, but I still leave the quoted rest of the thread at the end of the message. If the recipient doesn't need it, they are free to ignore it. If the recipient needs it, then it's there. Many people don't use threaded email clients, or don't have access to the previous messages for whatever reason, and I don't want to second-guess how my recipient does things.
As long as it's clear where my reply ends and that there's nothing hidden at the end of the quoted previous messages, I really don't see the harm.
(About bandwidth or storage costs: they are negligible, and I do not think it is a good usage of time to worry about them.)
I do inline replies and all, but I still leave the quoted rest of the thread at the end of the message. If the recipient doesn't need it, they are free to ignore it. If the recipient needs it, then it's there. Many people don't use threaded email clients, or don't have access to the previous messages for whatever reason, and I don't want to second-guess how my recipient does things.
As long as it's clear where my reply ends and that there's nothing hidden at the end of the quoted previous messages, I really don't see the harm.
(About bandwidth or storage costs: they are negligible, and I do not think it is a good usage of time to worry about them.)