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Jack,

sign on to ACRE (if you are not there already) and try their system. Once you are used to it, it is way better than "top posting", especially if you generally read every post. So you already know the previous. You only scroll to end..

Thomas J.

----- Original Message -----

From: Jack Beale

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:57 AM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Suggestion!

All,

    My Vote:

New message at the top - avoids a ton of scrolling around to read the relevant information.
Trim old messages to just the salient point answered.
Change the subject to match the new thread.

Jack Beale

----- Original Message -----
From: Russell Duffy

To: Rotary motors in aircraft

Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 8:31 PM

Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Suggestion!

The suggestion is to answer all threads at the END of the mail and not at the beginning like most e-mail programs will set you up to do. If it is a long thread, like the present EWP one, it gets quite old to scroll forth and back and stay sync with the order of answers given!:(

Actually, our favorite list provider (Marvin) has a pet peeve too. He has asked on many occasions that we NOT continue to quote old messages. He would like us to only quote a relevant piece of the message. Since he archives this stuff for us, it would save a bunch of disc space. Sometimes when I see multiple messages quoted within a single message, I just imagine Marvin beating his head against the keyboard :-)

I personally like colors (as you may have noticed), because it makes it easy to see the new text.

As for the subject abuse, that's been mentioned before. I don't really recall anyone violating that today. It's hard for me to imagine having to live with only dial-up these days.  If it were my only option, I'd spend the food budget on semi-high speed from DirecTV for $99/mo.   Just too dependent on internet.

Cheers,

Rusty (typing slowly for Bernie's dial-up <g>)