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Hi Daniel,
On 20 December 2000 at 16:08:06 +0100 (which was 15:08 where I
live) Daniel Morton wrote and made these points:
DM> I am not sure this is the correct forum but I can't figure out when I
DM> hit reply how to put my reply at the top of the message and the
DM> message I received at the bottom.
You have received a number of accurate replies which point to the
position of the %QUOTES macro in reply templates and advising
interspersed comments.
Might I recommend the excellent article by Allie Curtis Martin on the
FAQ site which discusses templates.
http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/templates.html
I would like to echo this and say that I believe that the M$ LookOut
methodology (which you are trying to emulate) is *not* a good one. It
goes against netiquette in that comments you make are out of context
and the reader has to trawl down through the reply to get to the
original points about which a reply is being made. Also, in that
method, over-quoting (including more of the original message than is
necessary to convey the reply context) is the norm ... and a very bad
norm it is too!
The netiquette order of preference in reply formatting is:
1). Comments placed alternately between quoted points.
2). Recap context first, add comments at end (as in this message)
.
.
.
999). Put entire original message at the end complete with headers.
This is opinion, not rule. IMHO it *should* be a rule somewhere.
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Cheers,
.\\arck
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