Top-Posting

[James Wilkinson]

Matthew S-H wrote:
> Because in personal e-mail you both should be following the 
> conversation thoroughly.  Unless one of you has multiple-personality 
> disorder, schizophrenia, or is just extremely pissed off at the other 
> person and has been ignoring him/her, I doubt either of you will be 
> coming into a conversation mid-way.  Plus, you shouldn't be forgetting 
> what someone else might have said (there are usually not long wait 
> periods between replies to personal e-mails). 
> Having responses at the top of messages can make things much easier, so 
> there is no reason to go through the trouble of bottom-posting and 
> snipping. 

That sounds a good argument for not including any quoted text at all!

James.

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