I take another hiatus and what do you know, upon my return I find myself in
the somewhat awkward position of being in synch with Dick Adams ...

"Dick Adams" > wrote in message
...
On Nov 13, 9:52 am, Boron Elgar > wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:01:06 -0500, "hutchndi" >
> wrote:
> [ ... ]
> I am perfectly capable of figuring out who is posting and
> who is replying, assuming the newsreader is one that allows original
> post quotation.

Well, that's you. Not everybody is capable of figuring out what is
going
on when a thread gets to be a total mess, as most threads usually do.

> The Usenet standard is bottom reply.

Usenet is dead. Long live Usenet!