Quoting David A. Temeles, Jr. (dtemeles@nvalaw.com):

> I am rather new to actually posting in discussion groups, so please excuse
> my rather clumsy attempts to communicate with the group.  

Thank you again, for participating.  I can suggest an add-in for your
mail program...

> X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11

(aka Microsoft Outlook 2003)

...that you might consider, if your company's IT policy permits.  It's
called Outlook Quotefix, a proprietary free-of-charge program described
and downloadable here, that permits you to use standard Internet quoting:
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

I have no experience with it (am not a Microsoft user), but have heard
good things about it.  In particular, it doesn't prevent you from
running MS-Outlook _without_ Quotefix, e.g., to interact with people who
expect Microsoft-style quoting and top-posting.