Doug McGarrett
Yes, replies at the top are most useful.
Nope, they're the most annoying ones. They only show ignorance to established rules and an unwillingness to adapt (like sending additional answers by mail because it's too hard to edit the header).
At my saltmine--a division of Honeywell--it is a serious offense for anyone to snip anything off an email he is replying to.
A nice example of why common sense is so uncommon (for more hilarious examples see http://computerworld.com/departments/opinions/sharktank/). Do you include photocopies of all previous replies to a letter in your answering letter? No? Then why do it with email?
And, as an aside, I think the emailer we use at my facility, IBM's Lotus Notes, was actually written for a UNIX system before it was ported to Windows, but I'm not sure.
Notes may be many things, but it is among the worst MUAs that I've come across. In fact, calling it a MUA is a deep insult to those programs that actually deserve that name.
It "top-posts."
I've written it before in a reply to you months ago: the fact that those that programmed the Notes client didn't have a clue doesn't make it a standard in a world where the rules are *much* older than Notes. Philipp -- Well, you can put a shoe in an oven but that wouldn't make it a biscuit. -- Pete Seeger