Jack seemed to be confused by the way his email reader handles email attributions. This harkens back to a debate that's been going on for at least 30 years on posting style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

Here is the standard explanation of why top posting is bad

Why I hate top-posting
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail and USENET?

Until eternal September, interleaved replies, with added cruft deleted, were considered the proper and polite way to respond to email or usenet posts.

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Larry Colen  l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) http://red4est.com/lrc


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