The message BAY16-F10CEBA15D882C90AC7D11DC53F0@phx.gbl from "Edward Taylor" manchicago@hotmail.com contains these words:
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Of course, we should be careful to acknowledge any substantial points which have not been challenged. In that spirit, I mention that I had never heard J's other meaning of "top posting"
Oh! erm ok...
My issue with writing emails above what you are replying to is tat people say it "disturbs the flow of reading" well my answer is simple - I am not using the replied email as a crib. I expect you to have read the previous email,
Why? And you might care to consider that some people (myself included) don't read the list daily as a matter of course, by which time some of us (I included) may well have forgotten the context.
and I only include it there incase you have not. This is meerly a different style of writing to inline emails, and should only be used when you are writing a complete email that has some kind of introduction, and some kind of ending. I agree fully that if you just write an email saying "yup, thats right" with the rest of the email below, that it can be very misleading.
As can posting a lot, and then quoting everything below, including two sigs and list footers.