Beating this horse a little further.... My opinion and practice vary according to the particular circumstances of the email that I'm replying to. If for instance it is a post that only requires a short respose, I'll often put that at the top. Granted, that usually happens more often in personal email, usually when a reply back is not expected, but sometimes it's appropriate for lists as well.
If, on the other hand, you need to respond to several points in the original post separately, it makes sense to do it top down: quote/response quote/response quote/response, with the unnecessary stuff stripped out, and is actually harder to make sense of with a top posting style. And, if you jump into a thread in anything but the first couple of posts, it's easier to pick up what's going on with bottom posting. I don't always read every post that comes in... If someone has already replied with top posting, fine, I'll follow suit - doing otherwise gets really painfully confusing. But otherwise, it reads more logically in most cases with bottom posting. I think the points of this discussion have been made: 1) quote in a logical way considering the context 2) trim your quotes. Can we stop talking about this now? -- Bill Christensen http://greenbuilder.com/contact/ Green Building Professionals Directory: http://directory.greenbuilder.com Sustainable Building Calendar: http://www.greenbuilder.com/calendar/ Green Real Estate: http://www.greenbuilder.com/realestate/ Straw Bale Registry: http://sbregistry.greenbuilder.com/ Books/videos/software: http://bookstore.greenbuilder.com/ -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
