At 7:17 PM EDT on September 4 Bo Peng sent off: > I THINK it is better to put the reply BEFORE quoted text and this has > nothing to do with M$. It is natural (to me) to put important part (my > reply) before non-important part (quote)
I understand your line of reasoning, but I think most people (if they haven't been corrupted by years of the other way) prefer a temporal ordering, i.e. old stuff at top, new stuff at bottom. > and keep my signature closer to the main body. I'd rather keep each sentence of my reply as close as possible to the point that it is replying to. > This also makes an email easier to read if the quote is long. The quote should not be long, and the biggest reason why so many UNIX types hate M$ for promulgating the bottom quote style is that it encourages people to attach entire threads at the bottom of each message, guaranteeing that noone will ever read them. -- ...from a gulf beyond the sun and stars that illume the Lethean shoals and the vague lands of somnolent visions, I floated on a black unrippling tide to the dark threshold of a dream. - Clark Ashton Smith Robert I. Reid | PGP/GPG Keys: http://astro.utoronto.ca/~reid/pgp.html
