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Subject:Location of response From:Daphne Schor <DSCHOR -at- ABA -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 27 May 1994 09:18:19 -0400
RE: Arthur Comings
>Do people think it's best to put a response at the end
>of the snippet being responded to, or at the beginning?
At the beginning so that it creates a logical progression in the
reader's mind. Otherwise, messages often make no sense to the
reader and get deleted without being read fully.
A snippet at the end of the message is like trying to read a
biography without knowing the name of the subject.
