Nancy wrote on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:38:18 -0400:

> 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.

There's a difference since work email is often an immediate personal
answer to a question. In a newsgroup, the reply may appear later in time
and others who may be able to contribute need to find out about it.

It's interesting that the original topic was catfish which are bottom
feeders!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not