It isn't necessarily /that/ bad, HOWEVER, I do find it rather amusing. I
used to be a bottom-replier for a while, way back in "the day" when only
Dial-up BBSes were available to me. My father, working as a full time
engineer on underwater ROVs informed me about the policy they had at
work.

All employees were, as a matter of actual written policy if I recall
correctly, were to post their reply at the top of the email. There was
also a stressing that emails be written using enough actual use of the
language so that the reader should only need to look in the quoted text
should they need to see specific details or code or numeric figures. The
rest should contain enough information so that the reader should be able
to figure out what is actually being discussed.

Since then, I've quoted everything and written above it, not counting
replying within the quoted area for different sections or the occasional
bottom-reply if there is a chain of previous message quotes already
built. Oh, and a fairly religious habit of trimming quoted text to, at a
bare minimum, remove the previous posters sig lines.

On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 08:29:17PM +0200, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> I must confess I use MSOutlook, which displays the top part of the
> message, so a reply at the bottom is invisible unless I scroll. Which in
> mos cases I don't, so I don't see most bottom replies.
>
> I guess the world must be divided in top-repliers and bottom-replieres,
> and they never communicate because they don't read ech other's posts :)
>
> > I hate scrolling too.
> > Therefore I prefer to see the reply at the bottom.
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