Thus it was written in the epistle of Brad Feazell,
> I know many people in this list read HP3000-L messages in a mail client
> rather than a news reader but I don't understand why.

Because it keeps all the activity in one place.  I don't use a newsreader at
all.  If I were reading numerous groups, that would be one thing, but as this
is my only newsgroup and my mail client is fully threaded, this is by far
more convenient.

> Another thing that would make reading this list more convenient would be the
> uniform placement of responses at the top of the original. There are
> appropriate times to combine the response with the original but placing the
> entire response at the bottom is unorthodox in 2001, isn't it?

No, Sir.  No more unorthodox than placing the entire response at the top is.

>                                                                It's just
> much quicker to read it from the top no matter if you're using a mail client
> or a news reader.

A single keystroke suffices to put me at the bottom and placing the response
there allows a single message to be archived or forwarded containing the
conversation in an order which is comfortable to read.  By far more useful in
my estimation.

Ted
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