Good day,
On other mailing lists, it is stricly forbidden to quote first and then
answer on the basis that if one is following the discussion, he has to
read twice and possibly more every post. I also have the "quote after"
rule in my Netiquette book at home. I wouldn't mind switching for this
mailing list, but I'm not sure it is so obviously better to quote after.
It all depends on how you read your mail. If you jump from one message
to the other without following the thread, then quoting before is
clearly better, if you read all of the thread starting from the first
post, then quoting after seems much better.
> May I ask you to think about your citation mode? Probably most
> readers (but at least myself) would prefer if you cited the necessary
> parts of messages first (including the name of their author).
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Daniel Lemire, Ph.D.
http://www.ondelette.com