interesting experiment.

[Toby Fisher]

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote:

> Can we please start trimming down messages to this list? there are posts
> that contain 200-300 lines of text and a
> "go read the docs" or "me too" at the top.
> Surely we don't need the message all the way back to the dawn of the thread?
> It wastes space in the archives.

Kerry,

This is, imho, but another symptom of what you have already spoken about.
I won't start a flame war here about the order of quoted and original
text, I've been there, there's no point, nobody will change my mind and I
expect the feeling's mutual for those who hold the opposing view.  All I
will say is that it seems that if the original text is at the top, there
seems to be a greater temptation to just hit send and let it go, no
editting of what's underneath, though of course this is not universal.

Cheers.

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