Re: How do YOU read midrange-l?

[CRPence <crp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  I agree with Vern.  I dislike bottom posting [quoted text above 
reply].  _Spinning_ through posts in a newsreader [e.g. using N=Next in 
Thunderbird] is extremely frustrating when encountering posts by bottom 
feeders ...err... bottom posters ;-)  Top posting [quoted text below 
reply] is preferable for me, because I already know what the topic is, 
esp. when it has kept /on subject/.  And... I also know what the prior 
poster wrote, in most cases, because I have most likely _just_ finished 
reading the message being responded to... only a moment before I moved 
on to its reply.  I also dislike paging past the quoted text [what I 
just read in the previous post], to see the reply; i.e. it makes 
/spinning/ seem more like /dredging/ through the message threads.

  Having started with off-line reading [for mail, news, BBs, journals, 
etc. from downloads using a super-slow modem ;-) ], and having used 
active news readers [off-line optional], email lists, and web-based 
forums, I have to say... I have never found anything as nice as using 
NNTP with a good News Reader.  This remains true, even if many replies 
are posted using /quoted text above reply/.

  Vern, Notes client Ctrl-Shift-End works fine for me... but only in 
edit-mode; I see your point in non-edit.  But rather than select and 
then post, I just let the NewsReader software automatically reformat [to 
quote] the message to which I am responding.  Then I immediately snip 
excessive quoted details and compose my response.  I seem to recall 
Notes client as news reader having quoting /internet style/ capability, 
such that similarly, a reply with quoted text enables delaying the edit 
activity.?

Regards, Chuck