On Wednesday - 03/15/2000 (11:54 AM) - Jeff Lasman wrote...
Do you really need me to treat this list as "special" too <smile>?
If I may point out something here... We're all using different email clients, which do different things for "quoted" text...so that's a gimmie. Replying at the top is easier for me to read a response to the original since everything follows in exact order as the questions are asked and then a response and comments to the questions follow.
Another reason.....Eudora puts in these funky bars on the left side for quoted text and it gets seriously crazy trying to read in between the lines as to who said what and when, after there are muliple replies back and forth in a thread. When multiple goings on occur, back and forth, with responses, now I'm busying myself counting bars in order to figure out questions and comments from answers. Going cross-eyed would about sum it up.
I can't use the ">" for quoted responses since that's no longer an option available in Eudora 4.xx, and Qualcomm has pretty much flat out refused to offer a choice of either the funky bar or the ">". Outlook Express is throwing up bars, too, in some of people's responses, as far as how they're showing up in my email client.
Changing email clients as to satisfy this list isn't an option for me, as I'm sure it isn't for others on this list, so people shouldn't get all bent out of shape if others choose to post in a style their comfortable with seeing, or using to read. If you think about it...telling someone where to post their responses is getting a little fussy. :-) The whole point of the list, I thought, is so people can understand who is writting what...correct? I really don't agree that people should be forced to conform to a specific style of replying since we're all having a hard enough time trying to conform to Cobalt's stuff.
Although I do agree that cropping some of the bulk from the original post makes sense, considering long threads occur, and then add those those blasted "bar" things again.
Anyways...just my two cents. Liz