I disagree. If the text of the post to which you are responding is
necessary to the understanding of your reply, it needs to go first. If it
is not, it needs to be deleted (this was, of course, of much more
importance when most people had slow modem connections - it still is
important when there are folks out there with limited space for saving
their e-mail).
One of the variables here is that many of those rules of ediquitte
(which I could never spell correctly) have to do with e-mail
corrispondance, rather than net-news posting. Since many of us read the
ski posts by e-mail, those rules should be kept in mind.
-Ken

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Kenneth Salzberg
Hamline University
School of Law (651) 523-2354
1536 Hewitt Ave.
Sisu Skier - 50K Club St. Paul, MN 55104
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