Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 18:58:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: Travis Siegel <tsiegel AT softcon DOT com>
To: Jim Stevenson <jims AT eos DOT arc DOT nasa DOT gov>
cc: PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de, opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re:  difficulty reading with speech
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Actually, I personally rather like the interspercing of comments in with
the prewritten text.  It makes it a lot easier to know what the individual
is talking about.  and since most email programs put a greater symbol
before quoted text, it's simple enough for me to go into review mode, and
simply skip any lines with greater than symbols at their beginning, and
read only the new stuff, but then if I need a point of reference, the
quoted stuff is there, and it's a simple matter of checking what it said
to remind me of what is going on.  

However, I don't like those that put their comments at the top, (often
times saying nothing that couldn't have been said without quoting) then
quote the message they're replying to in it's entirety (including to,
from, subject, and footer information in their response.  This to me is a
complete waste of space and bandwidth.  If you're not going to use the
quoted material, then don't quote it.

This of course is just my opinion, and obviously doesn't speak for anyone
else's prefferences.