Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:42:29 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at worldnet.att.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:50 PM 4/21/05, Gayle Surrette wrote:
>Except I've been top posting for the last 35 years and when I started
>top posting was the standard and in many places my last 10 jobs it
>was required for internal email.  So I have to wonder where this
>netiquette issue developed.

I just checked with a friend who administered the first node of the BITNET,
at City College (and, obviously, was working with networked computers well
before that).  From the time that there was software that quoted replies
were written under the quotation.

Elspeth