At 3:43 PM -0700 17-11-2002, Bill N wrote:
>Here are the updated poll results.  I received 7 more responses to
>this question.  The question was whether the new text should go on
>top of or below the quoted section when replying.  The new results
>are:
>
>15 people:  put the new text on top, above the quoted sections.
>4 people:  makes no difference either way.
>2 people:  on top, unless the quoted section is very short.
>1 person:  either, unless giving comments on several sections of the
>previous post, in which case put each comment below the section you
>are commenting upon.
>1 person:  Put the new text on the bottom.  This may be related to
>the respondent living in New Zealand where everything is upside down
>anyway. :-)
>
>Bill in the Southwest

The Low End Mac lists (US-run!) want bottom-posting, with only snips
of the previous message.
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Andrew Grebneff
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