Date   : Fri, 24 Sep 1999 12:26:04 +0100
From   : James Gibbon <jg@...>
Subject: Re: Netiquette 

Faraz Choudhry wrote:
> Hi, well I notice that most e-mail programs do
> including the Web-based ones.  Is that bad netiquette
> then?  I can understand if that creates a lot of junk,
> I do get the trail of messages also which have been
> replied to by different people but I don't complain. 

Hi Faraz.  Well - a few lines of the mail you're replying to,
to give appropriate context will normally suffice, and can make
your mail more readable. 

> However if you all wish I will clear it all up before
> replying to you, yes?  The thing is, don't we all
> sometimes need to know what we've replied to, isn't
> that the beauty of a mailing list?
> 

Some prefer quoted text to which you refer in your reply to be
included BEFORE your own comments, and I personally do think that 
this helps readability.  Also, most mailers will 'thread' mail in
a particular folder into reply sequence so that it's obvious to
which post a particular mail is a reply to.

Regards
James