>>>I certainly
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>>>>It seems that there is a lot of irregularity with the way that people respond
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>>>think
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>>>to messages. Some respond before the attached (previous message) text, and some add their message at the bottom. This makes it very difficult to follow a long thread. If everyone can agree, I would like to request that we come to a
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>>>we
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>>>consensus about the right and wrong way to respond to a message. This way when logging on for the first time in the morning and catching up with a thread that happened in ones absence, it will be easy to read the entire thing from top to
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>>>need
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>>>bottom. (I guess this is my vote for adding messages to the _bottom_). I find my self counting > signs to find out which message came first, and scrolling up to the top and back down to the bottom to follow a thread. Any input anyone?
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>>>to vote on it....I just can't decide....
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>>>Joe
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>>Clever
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>>-Mike
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>There have been several discussions on this before. And there were many opinions of which several members seemed adamant about how they were going to post responses. The "polite" protocol would be posting at the end of a message -- hence the name "Universal Thread" and not "Universal Braid". However, I do think those that want to insert messages between paragraphs, at the top, etc., will continue to do so. I only hope they will only do this where it makes sense, and even at that, keep it to a minimum. I do like the idea of "snipping" the top off a long thread, leaving the last paragraph or last few sentences. Then posting the response below that.

For an exceptionally long thread, I agree. But leaving previous messages in the reply makes catching up to a thread go a LOT faster.