Expectation of privacy

[Roger]

<snip>
>> BTW, one of them asks members not to top-post in replies ...
>
> Most other lists to which I belong have given in to modern mailing 
> conventions, which largely have fallen to the dictates of Outlook (and 
> even alpine) defaults.
>
> </snip>
For what it's worth, once I  understood the bottom post situation, I 
found it preferable because it forces one to carefully think out what 
one may be responding to, snip most of the previous guff, then to 
respond to the remaining topics.
<snips> are helpful for me.
Roger