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"Ellerbee, Genevieve" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:23:41 -0400
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> One of their pet peeves is hearing the same message
> over and over and over again because the already
> listened to words get posted over the response.
>
> Their preferred method is to have your answer at the
> top with that to which you are responding snipped and
> included below.
>
Hmm.  I was always told that topposting was a vast annoyance to the majority
of email readers, since you have to read the answer before you necessarily
know what you're responding to.  Instead, snip out everything except what
you're directly responding to (or any quotes you are addressing) and reply
to that below, so the email "flows" from statement to response.

This is what you learn on the wild and occasionally raucous worlds of
Usenet, where topposting is generally seen as a sign of a clueless newbie.

Genevieve

Genevieve Ellerbee
Associate Registrar
DAR Museum

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