On Sat, Jul 15, 2023 at 5:33 PM Stan Brown <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On 2023-07-15 14:42, R Losey wrote:
> > And, if an email is long, or if there is much back-and-forth, one must
> > scroll to see replies, even if they are simple. Having them at the top
> > is easier to see... and  being "out of order" is not usually a problem
> > (contrived situation aside).
>
> With all respect, that's a straw man. It does indeed occur when people
> fail to trim their quotes to only the part that is relevant to their
> reply. In my opinion, that's highly rude, because in effect the writer
> says "I am the most important person in the world, and my time to trim
> is more valuable than the combined time of all the people who will
> receive this message and have to hunt for the relevant bits."
>

Perhaps a straw man... sometimes there really is a conversation that is
long enough with relevant information that can make it long. I agree with
your "rude" assessment.

I am old enough to remember when all replies were placed "below" in email,
and I remember struggling through the changes when changes were made so
that replies went out on top, but now replies "above" the text seems to be
more common.

For this list, I personally don't care which way it is done, as long as we
have a standard so that we can encourage uniformity. I find it difficult to
read entries here that have both "above" and "below" replies mixed.

For now, I'm trying to follow the lead of the post; if it's below, I post
below; if it's above, I post above.

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