Bud Rogers wrote: > Except that in this case we're not talking about a practice that was > not previously common or even not so common. We're talking about a > practice that was virtually unknown until Microsoft flooded the market > with badly broken mail and news clients that make it very difficult to > properly quote or attribute anything.
True. In this situation, I wouldn't use the word "deprecated". I would just say that putting one's reply above the original message makes one look like an idiot. Craig