[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Beating this horse a little further.... > >My opinion and practice vary according to the particular >circumstances of the email that I'm replying to.
Thank you for saying this so well, Bill. This is exactly what I'm after -- a preferred method of replying to the list with room for flexibility. We are not mandating bottom posting, only recommending it as the preferred style on our lists. As I scroll through digest after digest from 30-some lists, I find it helpful to have some consistency, and I find bottom posting makes it easier for me to scroll back as necessary to read the context. But most of all it eliminates 90% of the excessive quoting. HINT: the Page Up and Page Down keys can be your friends if you have QuicKeys or another macro program. Ditto for a scroll wheel on your mouse or keyboard. >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. Well said again. >I think the points of this discussion have been made: 1) quote in a >logical way considering the context 2) trim your quotes. Excellent summary. Hoping we can put this thread to rest now.... Dan the listmom -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> "In a free country we punish men for crimes they commit but never for the opinions they have." Harry Truman -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
