James Silverton wrote:

> 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!


Lol...

:-)


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Greg