message formats

[Joel Rappaport]

I like Avery and Jerry's format.  To see what I mean, what if I put this
short, two line message below all the following:
----Joel


Avery Todd wrote:
>
> Jerry and list,
>
>    That's one of the reasons I "usually" put my message first. Then if
> someone  hasn't read (or can't remember) the original post, they can scroll
> on down to refresh their memory. If not needed, it can then be deleted
> without having to wade through all of it.
>    Come to think of it, isn't this an "I agree" message? :-)
>
> Avery
>
> >Good topic.  I have a suggestion - Think how much easier this message would
> >be to  read if the the reply was at the top of the message.  That way you
> >would'nt have to scroll down through all that stuff up there (that you have
> >read 20 times allready) to get to the new message down here. It is especially
> >time consuming an annoying when there is  about a megabite of copy and the
> >new message at the bottom is something like "yeah, I agree".
> >
> >Jerry Wood
>
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