Re: [Evolution] Signature at the end of reply message

[Ken Barber <kenb nu-world com>]

On Thursday 30 May 2002 12:37 pm, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> Why not write it like this. After the part you are answering to and then
> removing everything else that you are not answering to.  Writing it
> before the message means I have to look down first to read what you are
> replying to and then look up and read your response.  That's not good I
> think.

In the case of personal correspondence, I agree with you and indeed that is 
exactly what I do.

Correspondence on a list such as this is different.  Most people reading a 
message will have just finished reading its antecedent and will already know 
to what it is replying.  When combing through dozens or hundreds of messages 
most of us will want to see the "meat" of the message first in order to make 
a quick decision whether to scroll down for the rest of it, or go to the next 
message.

That can only be done if the reply is at the top.  If the reply is at the end, 
one must scroll down through every message before deciding whether to read it 
or discard it.  On a busy list, that quickly becomes a PITA.

Ken
-- 
"Your code declares that the rational man must sacrifice himself to the 
irrational, the independent man to parasites, the honest man to the 
dishonest, the man of justice to the unjust, the productive man to thieving 
loafers, the man of integrity to compromising knaves, the man of self-esteem 
to sniveling neurotics.  Do you wonder at the meanness of soul in those you 
see around you?  The man who achieves these virtues will not accept your 
moral code; the man who accepts your moral code will not achieve these 
virtues."
                --Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"