OT email response format (was Re: TTL computing)

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Tue Apr 16 03:25:01 2002

It was thus said that the Great Marvin Johnston once stated:
>
> I disagree :). Too many times, a mile and a half of quoted text starts
> out the message. I don't care to take the time to scroll down, but
> prefer to see the meat of what is being said at the top. It is
> especially annoying when the subject line doesn't reflect the message
> content ... which is most of the time.

  But I get so much email (from this list, and others) that I *still* have
to scroll down to get the context anyway, and it just doesn't look right to
me to have the response at the top.

  -spc (Ah, this looks much better to me 8-)
Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 03:25:01 BST