"Michael S. Schiffer" <mss2 at attbi.com> writes: > It might not be a bad idea for the list to settle on a standard for > quoting previous articles. (Such a standard could even go into an FAQ > for the list, as and when.) I personally like Usenet-style quoting, > where responses immediately follow the points they're responding to > and extraneous material gets snipped. (I think it makes for a more > conversational style.) But many people like the "quote the whole > thing and insert responses at the top" (which some e-mail programs > encourage). At this point, I think a majority of people here are > doing the first, but a noticeable minority are doing the second. I > think exchanges go more smoothly if everyone (or at least most people) > are following the same standard-- otherwise, in long exchanges, you > wind up with posts where you can't tell who said what, or in what > order. Just a thought. Personally, I *despise* top-posting. It makes the quote useless, and you can't tell what paragraph people are responding to, and it ruins the quoting sequence of people posting properly. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / New TMDA anti-spam in test John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Book log: http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/Ouroboros/booknotes/ New Dragaera mailing list, see http://dragaera.info