Paul Gilmartin wrote, re reply styles: >Indeed. Some prohibit editing quoted text, deeming it a form of forgery.
>That leads to a pernicious accumulation of footers and a secular bloat of text. Sigh. Not that this isn't an ancient and unlikely-to-be-resolved issue, but I'm of the strong opinion that It Depends. For corporate communications, top-posting isn't a bad thing: folks get added to threads, and can then understand WTF is going on. Bottom-posting would be a major pain in some of the customer threads I'm on, which go on for weeks and dozens or hundreds of notes. For a mailing list, it's clearly dumb, for the reasons Gil notes. The sad thing is that no client seems to have figured this out, perhaps providing a button that will flip formats. Or allowing a marker in the address book indicating the style to use for specific addressees. Or any number of other options. .phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
