@Jason_Dodd@mastodon.social @clacke It's not so much the position of the reply (though putting it before the thing you're replying to is weird in my world), it's leaving the endless piles of crud that make up all the previous messages in the thread in the email. The thread should contain the thread, not each email!!
In the case I was referring to where the university didn't want to spend money on enough disk space, this practice brought the messages stores to their knees.