I prefer reading the most recent responses to a thread at the beginning of
a message -- particularly, if it's one I've been following closely.  In my
case, our  mail client (Lotus Notes Mail -- <yeah, yeah, yeah ... I don't
want to hear it ... :-( > doesn't allow for automatically quoting a
previous message (e.g., using ">" or ">>", etc.)).  When I reply to a
message, the mailer pops me into a space at the beginning of the original
message after inserting a reply/forward header.

Lee Gunter





From: Ted Ashton <[log in to unmask]> on 12/17/98 01:47 PM

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Subject:  Re: Upside down




Thus it was written in the epistle of Brad Feazell,
> I'm fairly new to this group and I've noticed that many participants
> prefer to locate their responses below the message to which they are
> responding. This is pretty rare in the other groups I read.
>
> Is their any particular reason for this? It's no big deal but it makes
> reading more difficult - or is that just my opinion?

I'd vote for "your opinion" :-).  We attempt to keep the number of quoted
lines
down, but having done that it's distinctly easier coming in late on a
discussion if the reply follows that to which it is replying.  Someone
reading
only this message, for instance, would have a summary of the thread thus
far
in the order in which it occurred.

HTH,
Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires
a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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