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   Harold Fuchs <[email protected]> wrote:

> E-mail was designed for conversations. In a conversation it is not
> customary to repeat everything that's already been said before saying
> something new.

Reported conversations, however, are always documented in the order that
they occur (view any novel containing dialogue, for example). A private
conversation between two individuals is one thing - each contributor knows
what the other has already said - but conversations designed to be read by
others (as on mailing lists) need to follow the reporting convention if you
are to avoid the huge inconvenience of having to read from the bottom to the
top.

And do we really have to go through this whole pointless argument all over
again? Nobody ever changes their own point of view.

R.

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  Richard Travers 
  [email protected]
  Truro, Cornwall
  

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