On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 08:06:40AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On 4 Oct 2002, David Krider wrote: > > >1) Why is it that some people seem to have a religious belief that you > >should reply BELOW someone else's included comments? I think it's much > >easier to follow a thread in an email client with a preview pane (e.g. > >Evolution and Mozilla Mail) if the reply sits on top. What am I missing?
here is an explanation from http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html There are a bunch of good refs at the bottom of that page. | Email and Usenet news are typically used for modern, often | almost real-time exchanges which can closely resemble a verbal | discussion rather than a correspondence by snailmail where the | time between the letters is days or weeks. In a good discussion | one interacts, rather than keeps up separate monologues. Thus | it is very natural to quote a point, respond, quote the second | point, respond and so forth. | Adapted from an advisory posting by Bob Gootee: Answering above | the the original message is called top posting. Sometimes also | called the Jeopardy style. Usenet is Q & A not A & Q. (The name | obviously comes from the game of Jeopardy, where the competitor | is given the answer before the question.) trivia. pete
