Hi Indigo:

I understand your point.  However, to ask for a uniform e-mail posting
style is - in my eyes - asking people to check their personality at the
door.

E-mail is one medium of communication, used by correspondents to
exchange information and express themselves.  Some people are fine with
top-posting.  Some prefer allowing readers (or listeners) to regain a
sense of context.  Some (such as I) prefer responding in 'bits &
pieces' - inserting bits of response after pieces of the original
message - so as to keep ideas fresh and spontaneous.  Sometimes, as in
this message, the respondent (me) doesn't even include the original
message.

To ask for uniformity might accomplish a personal goal, easing your
reading and/or listening, but it may be viewed by some as an
unreasonable request to remain detached and impersonal.  Really, I don't
mean to sound like a curmudgeon.  But none of the styles of response I
described above interfere with communication of information and ideas
which ought to be the focus of this list serve.  Formatting should
remain a personal choice.

Imagine if Frost, Rilke and e. e. cumming had to write in some uniform
format?

Sincerely,

Jay Heuman
Visitor & Volunteer Services Coordinator
Joslyn Art Museum
2200 Dodge Street, Omaha, NE, 68102
342-3300 (telephone)   342-2376 (fax)

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"Fine art is that in which the hand, the head
and the heart go together."
                          John Ruskin, 1819-1900
                          The Two Paths. Lecture ii.
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