>I also like to take those threads where someone asks three of four questions and repsond to the questions individually with the question quoted just before the answer.
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>It is just time wasting to see a dozen messages in a thread and have everyone of them start with an entire summary of all previous messages. I would vote for putting the most recent response at the top so it is unnecessary to reread all of the previous messages to find out what the new information is, that is if we feel that keeping the entire thread quoted in the response is appropriate.
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>My newgroup software barks at me if more than 30% of my message is a quote from the previous message.

Points well taken...
I guess that the differences in opinion stem from differences in readin habits. When I am catching up with a thread, I don't read each message, I go straight to the last one in each thread and read from top to bottom (or in Vlad and Jim Nelson's cases, bottom to top :-)). If someone has snipped, I then go back up to read the message that was snipped. This ends up being much quicker for me, because I can read the whole thread by only downloading one message. I have learned something from this thread, however, and that's that not all people do things like I do, and so a consensus won't be so easy to reach... and is probably a bad idea.

Erik