Re: OT:Re: ADMIN REQUEST Re: Konica 750nm Processing Time

[Clive Warren <Clive.Warren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 6:49 pm -0400 6/7/99, Lee S. Kilpatrick (Mr. Breeze) wrote:

>> I don't think that you can blame Microsoft on this one.  All of the mail
>> programs I use start your reply off at the top - Outlook, Netscape
>> Messenger, Pine, etc.  BTW, Pine (which I'm using now) is an ancient
>> Unix-based mail reader that I've used for the past eight years on the Net.
>
>
>It seems to me that top-quoting is indispensible if you are responding
>point-for-point to the previous message.  You have a bit of the
>previous message quoted, you respond to it, quote a little more,
>respond to that, etc.  If your comment is more of a general one, which
>doesn't have a point-for-point correspondence, then it seems
>reasonable to put your new message at the top, and the previous
>message at the bottom.  That way, if you are a reader who is following
>the discussion closely, you don't need to look at the previous
>message.  If you need a bit of a reminder of what the new message is
>in response to, however, you can just refer to it at the bottom.  (It
>may be appropriate to use it in this "reminder" fashion, also, if you
>are responding, for example, to a post from several days or weeks
>ago.)


Luckily Willem-Jan prefers the more psychological and temporally compatible
approach of appending replies to the bottom of messages.  I have every
confidence in his strict administration of the policy :-)


All the best,

              Clive   http://clive.bel-epa.com


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