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Nancy Young[_2_] Nancy Young[_2_] is offline
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Default A Catfish By Any Other Name...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Tue 14 Oct 2008 12:07:56a, Blinky the Shark told us...
>
>> You are indeed misunderstanding. She wants *each block of text*
>> *throughout the message* to have an indvidually prepended an
>> attribution like I will do manually for the rest of this reply...

>
> Yes, I did indeed misunderstand.


It's ridiculous. I imagine it's tough to read a book if one has
that much trouble following along.

>> It sucks in email, as well. It have no problems with it for
>> languages that are read from bottom to top, but that's not English.

>
> As far as e-mail, I disagree. Since the inception of intra-company
> e-mail, it has been a common and expected practice to top post when
> replying.


That's work. I wouldn't expect it or like it in personal email.

nancy