here are some other email netiquette site rules on email quoting... <http://quote.6x.to/> states: > Some software automatically puts quoted material at the *end* of a > message. It should go at the start unless you have a valid reason to > quote the entire message. In that case it's often better to start the > message with your comments and put all the quoted material at the end.
my favorite site, the Jargon Dictionary, says: > Thanks to poor design of some PC-based mail agents, one will > occasionally see the entire quoted message after the response, like > this > > response to message > > entire message > > but this practice is strongly deprecated. The Jargon Dictionary site, for what it's worth, was written by many of the pioneers of the internet in the late 1970's and 1980's.... many of whom were active participants in setting what is now considered "netiquette." Also, I'm on about 3 dozen mailing lists. all follow the "quoted text before your text" convention. The lists I'm on range from publicly subscribed internet mailing lists with subscribers speaking any of a dozen languages and living in even more countries... to small company lists where I talk to virtually everyone in the break room every day. Every one of these lists prefers quote-before. Some of these lists it's just generally accepted norm, others are like this by mandate. Almost all non-Microsoft email clients also follow the quote-before stance.... Mail.app quotes before... Eudora quotes before... Netscape quotes before... Pine (which is one of the most common UNIX command line readers) quotes before... (although, pine and some others have a toggle to switch to quote-after) Virtually all commonly used USENET readers quote-before, but some include options to switch from one method to the other. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
