Re: A Catfish By Any Other Name...

Wayne Boatwright wrote:

On Tue 14 Oct 2008 12:07:56a, Blinky the Shark told us...

You are indeed misunderstanding. She wants *each block of text*
*throughout the message* to have an indvidually prepended an attribution
like I will do manually for the rest of this reply...

Yes, I did indeed misunderstand.

It sucks in email, as well. It have no problems with it for languages
that are read from bottom to top, but that's not English.

As far as e-mail, I disagree. Since the inception of intra-company e-mail,
it has been a common and expected practice to top post when replying.

Yes, I realize that corporate email users are lazy.

For example, back in the early 1980s when e-mail was introduced nationally
within the Bell System, instructions to top post when replying to an e-
mail were explicitly given to employees. I know this was common in other
large companies as well.

Yes, I know the corporate rules-makers are lazy.

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