Article quoting (was Re: Whats a reasonable collection?)

From: Ethan Dicks <ethan_dicks_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri Jun 29 15:07:52 2001

--- Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org> wrote:
>
> Personally, I would rather see a persons comments *above* the quoted
> material. That way, I read instantly if I am interested rather than have to
> scroll down. And yes, I am lazy although I would sometimes prefer to call it
> efficient :).

And _my_ preference is to keep things in chronological order and with the
new comments interspersed for context. Oh, yeah, and with the irrelevant
stuff *not* quoted.

Unfortunately, this is the style of yester-year, of 1200-baud UUCP feeds
and old Usenet. None of this is easy to do with MicroSloth products.

-ethan


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