Nunya Bidnits wrote:

> Didn't you just post about how your Thunderbird fixed that problem
> and that didn't bother you? And isn't that why the group wants it at
> the bottom, so you know where to find it?

That's sort of a false hobson's choice: it isn't an either-or issue. The
group wants text to follow the same pattern conversational speech follows.
You can effectively interleave a response, as I'm doing. Or you can trim out
all of the text to which you are not responding, leaving only that portion
intact to which you choose to reply to.

> I get it just fine, thanks,
> and I see you made it to the first line of my post anyway, the rest
> of which was all in one piece. If you don't want to read it, just hit
> delete or move on.

True, that is one choice. But I open up a post because I'm interested in
what the author has to say; I have decided that what he says is worth my
time and generally has value. Why would someone take the time to make an
informative post if they didn't want folks to read what they have to say.

> There were lots of attributions and it would take all day to snip and
> yet keep them all.

It takes me no time at all to highlight and delete the text which I want to
trim. I do so because it is courteous to the reader and it makes my posting
more understandable.

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Dave
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