16 Apr
2002
16 Apr
'02
10:51 a.m.
Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Marvin Johnston once stated:
Okay, let me modify my statement. On short messages, the bottom or in
line is fine; on longer messages, then the top is appropriate. Since the
only purpose of quoting is to keep things in context, why not keep the
responses on the top where they can be read ... unless they are
specifically dealing with some points raised in the original quote. And
at least remove the extra garbage!
I disagree :). Too many times, a mile and a half of quoted text starts
out the message. I don't care to take the time to scroll down, but
prefer to see the meat of what is being said at the top. It is
especially annoying when the subject line doesn't reflect the message
content ... which is most of the time.
But I get so much email (from this list, and others) that I *still* have
to scroll down to get the context anyway, and it just doesn't look right to
me to have the response at the top.