On Wed, 05 Sep 2001 16:56:18 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm with Mike on this, and I get the messages in real time. It's
>annoying and perhaps poor netiquette to repost an entire message,
>sometimes with headers, footers, and other messages contained therein,
>when replying to the list. Another annoyance is when the reply is
>posted ~below~ all that, so the reader has to scroll through however
>many lines of type just to read the message.
Or, in my mind, another annoyance is those who post
their reply *above* the relevant material, so one has
to scroll down to see what they are referring to, then
scroll back up to see their observations.
MS Outhouse says the reply goes above the earlier
message, so that must be the "right" way to do it...
Daddy Gates knows best.
> So, please trim your
>messages and, wherever possible, put your replies above the quoted
>material. Thank you ...
I won't be putting my replies above the quoted
material. My email program doesn't think that is the
right way to do it, and I agree with my email program.
I prefer to trim the headers and snip irrelevant parts
of the original message, then reply below the trimmed
post. If I think my trimming might lose too much
context, I add a "snip" line to show I have trimmed the
message.
People read from top to bottom, not from bottom to top.
One does not put the postscript before the narrative,
then hope someone understands the postscript by
continuing down to read the narrative.
Thank you.
--
John Mustarde
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