a few reminders...

[Brett Dikeman]

At 1:31 PM -0700 5/2/04, Sean Ford wrote:

>Email threads, from the beginning, have placed quoted text below.

Not true in the slightest.  Microsoft started the trend with 
Microsoft Mail well after unix email and USENET clients established a 
common convention, and much to the annoyance of the clued-in, other 
groupware followed in MS's footsteps.  It was one of many conventions 
and standards groupware in general shamelessly violated (Lotus Notes 
and cc:Mail are infamous for causing all sorts of problems for the 
rest of the world; don't even get me started about all the problems 
we have today thanks to Exchange).

http://email.about.com/cs/netiquettetips/qt/et090402.htm
http://www.redballoon.net/~snorwood/quote-rant.shtml
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
http://www.webhero.org/Newsgroups/quoting.htm
http://www.motorhome-list.org.uk/faqs.htm#The%20Rules
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?action=edit&id=Top-posting_or_bottom-posting
http://earlydues.hispeed.com/ieel/netiquette.htm#quote
http://listmembersfaq.emaillist-managers.com/archives/000020.shtml
http://www.infradead.org/~dwmw2/email.html
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs312/2004sp/netiquette.htm

(not a single one proposes your style of quoting. Despite my search 
in google for "'quoted text' above below", I was unable to find a 
single FAQ or article proposing putting quoted text below the reply).

>  If we
>followed your suggestion, a thread containing 10 replies would force 
>the reader
>to re-read or re-scan the same information multiple times until s/he 
>is able to
>find the new information at the bottom.

The whole point is that you DON'T quote 10 emails, you only quote 
text that is relevant to your reply, as I have done here.  This is 
what I personally care about the most...

Brett
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