Proof bottom posting is stupid.

half_pint

If it was normal for the most recent message be at the end of the list
then when you read a newsgroup the oldest message would appear
first and you would have to download the entire list of messages ever
posted to a grooup to get the most recently posted message.
This would take forever and it is obviouly a stupid way to proceed.

But why then do so many people prefer things to be that way?

Jerry Knight

Troll.

half_pint wrote:
> If it was normal for the most recent message be at the end of the list


Troll.

> then when you read a newsgroup the oldest message would appear


Troll.

> first and you would have to download the entire list of messages ever


Troll.

> posted to a grooup to get the most recently posted message.


Troll.

> This would take forever and it is obviouly a stupid way to proceed.


Troll.

> But why then do so many people prefer things to be that way

Troll.

Jon Senior

No. You got that all wrong... it should be;

Troll!

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Jerry Knight wrote:
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>>then when you read a newsgroup the oldest message would appear
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>>first and you would have to download the entire list of messages ever
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>>posted to a grooup to get the most recently posted message.
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>>This would take forever and it is obviouly a stupid way to proceed.
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>>But why then do so many people prefer things to be that way
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Rich

"half_pint" <esboella@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:32mg27F3nlo2eU1@individual.net...
> If it was normal for the most recent message be at the end of the list
> then when you read a newsgroup the oldest message would appear
> first and you would have to download the entire list of messages ever
> posted to a grooup to get the most recently posted message.
> This would take forever and it is obviouly a stupid way to proceed.
>
> But why then do so many people prefer things to be that way?
>

half-wit would appear to be a compliment.
>

Tim Woodall

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:11:26 -0000,
half_pint <esboella@yahoo.com> wrote:
> If it was normal for the most recent message be at the end of the list
> then when you read a newsgroup the oldest message would appear
> first
I don't get this? The oldest message does appear first. What sort of
newreader do you use that lists the newest message at the top of the
thread and the older messages below it? Bizarre!

Next you'll be telling me that books should put the first page at the
back. IIRC Japanese does have books that, to westerners, read back to
front but thats related to the way they write. I wouldn't be surprised
if other right to left languages - e.g. arabic - are the same.

Tim.

--
God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t,"
and there was light.

http://tjw.hn.org/ http://www.locofungus.btinternet.co.uk/

half_pint

No, when you download 100 message it is not the first 100
messages posted to the group but the last 100.



"Tim Woodall" <devnull@woodall.me.uk> wrote in message
news:slrncseija.2dq.devnull@feynman.home.woodall.me.uk...
> On Sun, 19 Dec 2004 23:11:26 -0000,
> half_pint <esboella@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > If it was normal for the most recent message be at the end of the list
> > then when you read a newsgroup the oldest message would appear
> > first
> I don't get this? The oldest message does appear first. What sort of
> newreader do you use that lists the newest message at the top of the
> thread and the older messages below it? Bizarre!
>
> Next you'll be telling me that books should put the first page at the
> back. IIRC Japanese does have books that, to westerners, read back to
> front but thats related to the way they write. I wouldn't be surprised
> if other right to left languages - e.g. arabic - are the same.
>
> Tim.
>
> --
> God said, "div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t,"
> and there was light.
>
> http://tjw.hn.org/ http://www.locofungus.btinternet.co.uk/

Just zis Guy, you know?

The real proof bottom posting is stupid would probably be if half_wit
started advocating it.

Guy
--
"then came ye chavves, theyre cartes girded wyth candels
blue, and theyre beastes wyth straynge horn-lyke thyngs
onn theyre arses that theyre fartes be herde from myles
around." Chaucer, the Sheppey Tales