Quothe Marvin Johnston, from writings of Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 08:51:46AM -0700:
> Okay, let me modify my statement. On short messages, the bottom or in
> line is fine; on longer messages, then the top is appropriate. Since the
No it isn't. Only those people new to using the 'net believe such
foolish nonsense. Trim as much text as possible out of messages that
are being replied to, and don't waste everyone's disk space, time
and bandwith by including needless quotes, such as entire long messages
or even entire threads, below the reply.
> only purpose of quoting is to keep things in context, why not keep the
> responses on the top where they can be read ... unless they are
If you can't read responses unless they're on top, you need to begin
using different software. :-)
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