Richard D Ingham wrote:
>
> I always perfer the response in front of the history of a thread.

I've done it both ways, and I can say with some certainty that... it
depends on what I'm replying to. A lot of times I like to reply to
individual points of a message. Kind of a point/counter-point thing.
["Jane, you ignorant sl*t." :-) (tm) Dan Akroyd, SNL]

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Another advantage, of course, is that you can selectively edit the post
you're replying to, snipping out parts that are irrelevant (or that
might weaken your argument if they were repeated :-) ). It also helps
keep people from feeling they're wasting time paging through stuff
they've read before.

> I am accustom to this behavior in all the email packages I have used, albeit
> only three (OE, DaVinci, and Notes).

We have MS Mail (yes, the pre-Win95 thing) and it does the same. Since
joining this list I've wished it was more flexible. I was unhappy to
hear that Notes Mail does the same, since corporate policy is that we
will begin using Notes for all e-mail correspondance, both internal and
external, beginning next year. Wonder if that's configurable?

Just my .02,
Patrick
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