When in a private correspondence, regardless of the number of participants, the context is probably known and thus there is no need to read previous replies. I would reply like this, because I only care about what you and I are talking about at this point of time - there is no need for any reference. If I do feel like quoting something, I may look below. Since the importance of the previous replies are not high in this scenario, they are at the bottom, out of view. On 16 December 2011 12:03, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. <jeffrey.parke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't really think that people put any conscious thought into if they > should top or bottom post. But I may be concerned about one particular message or sentence or paragraph or word, and in that case I may choose to highlight the relevant extract like this. In a high-traffic medium such as a mailing list, there is no prior knowledge of context or content. As such, replying like this makes the most sense and follows the flow of conversation. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
