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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 20 Jun 1999.
Re: Turtles

Re: Turtles

Matthew Thomas wrote:
> No, it's just common sense. It makes sense for people to read the bits
> you're replying to, before they read your replies to them -- just like
> an ordinary conversation. This matters particularly if you're replying
> to several different bits of a message.
Okay, well when I'm making a general reply, I've always replied to the
top and I've seen most people do it until I came to this newsgroup

> Most newsreaders have an option to automatically place the cursor either
> above or below the quoted text when replying -- the well-designed ones
> default to below.
I have Netscape 4.06 but I'm not going to bother with the default cos
it'd be easier just to set where I want to reply.

 
> ttfn
> --
> Matthew `mpt' Thomas
> Columnist, http://www.scoop.co.nz/
> Webmaster, http://www.ucsa.canterbury.ac.nz/clubs/kakariki/
> FAQ maintainer, news:alt.ascii-art

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