Madis Kaal wrote:

> as no-one else seems to care, I thought I'd take it up.

  The "complainers" amongst us have long since *given up* on this one.

> Besides that, it is much better to have the quoted text _above_
> the text that you are writing.

  Not necessarily.  If so, only three lines at most, because along the
lines of your principal comment, people really do not want to read the
same thing again in a reply.  That's what mailreaders have threading
and/ or intelligent sort-by-subject for.  The reader wants to see as
much as possible of the (new) answer one one screen.

  While my first sentence above reads nicely after the quote, it would
have arguably, more impact before.  The second of course must due to its
structure, come after.

  Just over 1k plus headers.
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  Cheers,
        Paul B.