Re: [PLUG] I don't get it. What's the big deal with putting the response on top?

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

Howard Bloom wrote:

> I don't like the response on the bottom.  Someone will have to explain the
> reason or purist reason why you all put the responses and replies on the
> bottom of the message.  
>
> whether or not I used Outlook or Eudora, I
> would still put my response on the top because"
>
> 1.  I like it.
> 2.  It is quicker.
>  
Sometimes that is a bad thing as it encourages sloppy wholesale quoting 
of unnecessary irrelevant stuff.

> 3.  It makes sense.
>  
Sometimes.  Sometimes it makes a lot of sense when the quoted stuff is 
really not that important, but necessary to remind the reader what your 
are talking about.  But often, like the chapters of a book, it makes no 
sense.

> You make an effort to put your
> response on the bottom, but leave 50 lines of bullshit that is no longer
> germane to the discussion.  I could deal with the bottom response if the
> messages were at least cleaned up.  
>  

One of the purposes of bottom quoting, as I understand it, is to 
minimize the irrelevant quotes.  I find bottom quoters far less likely 
to quote everything, whereas top quoters often leave everything in, 
including 5 repeated signatures and list footers.

I don't belong to the orthodoxy on this.  My peeve is a email where some 
of the correspondents bottom and others top quoted -- a mess to read.  I 
tend to follow what the person I am addressing did.


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