On Saturday, Nov 29, 2003, at 22:14 US/Pacific, gtyler wrote:

> Sorry, probably "too dumb to see that it makes a message harder to
> read".

Well, there are assorted reasons to quote the original message(s), and
the quoting style really should change depending on the reasons.  It's
not necessary to quote at all, if your text stands alone...

> When you hit the reply button it automatically puts the cursor at the
> top of
> the reply, so I thought that was the standard way of doing it. I did
> think
> about it, but I see other people doing it both ways.

There's no standard.

> You want the reply at the bottom? no problem,

Ideally, *I* think you should edit the quoted text down to the salient
points you are responding to, and intersperse your comments with the
quoted text that is most appropriate, as I've tried to do here.  yes,
it's more work, but it's better for the readers.  One writer doing a
bit more work makes things a lot easier (potentially, anyway) a couple
thousand readers...

BillW

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