On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:54:04 GMT, 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 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. For
> example, back in the early 1980s when e-mail was introduced nationally
> within the Bell System, instructions to top post when replying to an e-
> mail were explicitly given to employees. I know this was common in other
> large companies as well.

but usenet is not business e-mail.

your pal,
blake