From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:06:01 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Elspeth (et al),=20

I just had a s=E9ance with my dead great grandfather, who was writing =
letters
before there was an internet and he said that he never considered =
copying
everything said in previous correspondence before starting in on his
response. So, my dead ancestor trumps your live geek.

Ernest Lilley

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-----Original Message-----
From: Elspeth Kovar [mailto:ekovar at worldnet.att.net]=20
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:42 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting

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,=20
at City College (and, obviously, was working with networked computers =
well=20
before that).  From the time that there was software that quoted replies =

were written under the quotation.

Elspeth