"David Buttery" wrote:
"Jack Harrison" wrote:

In brief:
When someone wants to reply or add comments to an earlier posting,
they should quote the relevant bits ONLY and then add the reply.

Agreed absolutely. If a group has top-posting as its standard
(24hoursupport.helpdesk does) then that's one thing, but otherwise I
find it much less easy to read. And please, folks, don't put a reply
*beneath* someone else's sig, since many newsreaders assume that
everything beneath the sig separator (hyphen-hyphen-space) is part of
the sig and will display it as such.

I always snip names, addresses, and sigs, but leave the
attributions at the top ... the arrangement of messages is then
entirely logical, as long as the chevrons are there. This is how
I had it explained back in 1995 and I've not heard or read a
better argument since.

Philip Eden