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04-02-2006, 08:09 PM posted to rec.gardens

wrote:
the first people on usenet were scientists and email was linear, not packaged like it
is now, further messages were THREADED like it is now so we KNOW what the topic of
the message is as we scroll thru. I know cause I was there at the start. we didnt
all have puters at home and it would sometimes take days before we got an answer to
an email so it was pretty easy to forget what the person was talking about.
everyone is using readers that THREAD messages, that is line up the posts with the OP
first and then replies as they come in, right?

the problem of bottom posting is the nesting sequence....................

[snip]

The problem is the mix of top and bottom posting, the inconsistent
and/or careless snipping, etc.

NB that I snipped the rest of your post, which consisted of previous
posts that are more or less irrelevant to my answer to your comment.

There are newsreaders that will display threads in a tree when to
display threads. I don't know about Outlook, since I've never used it.

HTH