# Email-created reply including reply preamble

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-created-reply-including-reply-preamble/25472>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** email\
**Created:** [February 21, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-created-reply-including-reply-preamble/25472 "2015-02-21T05:52:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/email-created-reply-including-reply-preamble/25472/2 "2015-02-21T05:56:00Z")

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I question whether this is the right way to approach this. Why didn’t you reply to the original email with longer text? Replying to your own email is a bit odd.

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