I usually top post because I don't know how to make Outlook.com do otherwise. That being said, I kind of disagree with what you said about judicious snipping "defeating the benefit" of bottom posting. In fact it enhances it, as it allows the reader to first browse the quoted message and then see the response to it. It also allows you do have a series of "quote / reply, quote / reply" sequences.
To me that is the most useful way a newsgroup or discussion list would work. Unfortunately its too "complex" for too many people. One person's opinion... Frank ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Gord Tomlin <gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com> Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 8:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain.. On 2016-08-19 09:11, David Boyes wrote: > include ONLY the relevant portion of the note you're replying to. It focuses > your reply on the important part of what you're trying to say. > > We don't need to see 11 copies of the required disclaimers, etc. What David said. And BTW, doing so more or less defeats the main alleged benefit of bottom-posting (I realize the irony that this reply is bottom-posted). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
