On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:05:45 +0100, TOR <tor(a)oak.rpg.pl> wrote:
These are general netiquette rules and are to
facilitate reading. You
read form top to bottom, right? That's why it's only logical to have the
quote first and the reply second. They also keep the size of the posts
down. Essencially, if you quote the whole post in your reply, you're
making all the readers download it twice (first the original and then
it's copy in your reply).
I prefer to have the new text *above* the old one, especially if there
is lots of text quoted. In that case I can read the new text and
ignore the old. Putting it below means I have to go down through the
text to get to the new stuff. I too read from the top to the bottom,
and therefore I would like to have the most important material, being
that material that I have not read yet, at the beginning.
Andre Engels