On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Noam Izenberg wrote: @> > In personal e-mail, it's generally less @> > important than it is on newsgroups and lists - @> @> Interleaving is often more useful on personal (informal) e-mail, which @> is, in fact, more like a conversation than multi-participant list @> discussions are, @> and it can get exasperating to have every sentence you wrote appended @> with a comment (or worse have sentences interrupted in the middle). I generally find it exasperating only when the person involved has set their auto-line-break to something greater than 72 characters. @> > Imagine the movie Memento if this helps. @> @> I prefer the I Never Promised You A Rose Garden approach to E-mail. As long as it's not the David Lynch approach to e-mail...