All the corporate systems that I've used in the past 10 yrs have adhered to
this reply-on-top convention. You just have to read in reverse
chronological order. I've gotten used to it and it comes easy to me now.
Maybe I'm just narrow-minded. :-)
Skip
At 7/29/99 09:42 AM +0200, you wrote:
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Acer Victoria <siddim01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Thursday, July 29, 1999 5:56 AM
>Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] A plea for trimming quotes (Second)
>
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Skip Williams wrote:
>>
>> >I second this plea, and it also would make it MUCH easier to read if
>> >everyone put their replies at the top of the message, instead of below the
>> >original posting.
>>
>> Actually, I think it's easier if the replies were consistently below the
>> original message; makes for following through, knowing has already been
>> said, easier.
>>
>> /Acer Victoria
>
>
>I second the last, BUT that also implies like Jan says that you only copy
>what is
>really relevant to your message, and not all of what has been said earlier. If
>everyone would do just that I think most of us would like to have the
>replies below
>the original message. BTW, the habit of putting the reply on top seems to be
>a US
>habit I think. It sure makes for an easier reading of you're not interested
>in the
>quoted part of the message, but personally I like to "get the whole story".
>Perhaps
>this also has to do with the fact that I'm not reading my own language.
>
>Per Nordenberg
>
>"To look into the eyes of a wolf is to look into ones' soul."
>
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