Good god. Steven is even quoting Tom Christianson wrong. Tom said not to stick the WHOLE message at the bottom, where it doesn't provide context. What I have been doing falls in the realm of "providing context".
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Steve Lamb wrote: > Goody, I get to use this. Thank Tom Christiansen for this one. It was > written with Usenet in mind but most of these translate right over to mail. > Enjoy. > -- Tom Christiansens FAQ -- > and integrate your quoted text with the body of your message. Don't just put > everything at the end.