Denver C. Fox wrote:
>> Sigh. Top posting actually makes more sense half the time, and no
>> reasonably intelligent person should have trouble following it. But
>> go ahead, get your jollies by criicizing other people's posting
>> habits. Beats staying on topic.
(WHO WROTE THE ABOVE, DF? Nice attribution.)
> If you are a reasonably intelligent person (?) top-posting is the
> only way to go, as long as there is enough info on the bottom to jog
> your memory if you need your memory jogged.
So why are you BOTTOM posting then? Because you wanted people to know what
the hell you were replying to, that's why.
> I have seen (on this NG) "bottom posted" single sentences following
> literally reams of top posting, including perhaps the stuff from the
> last 5 posters included. And the sentence was perfectly
> understandable, without all the top-posted stuff, if you had an ounce
> of intelliegence, once you finally got to it.
Just because some idiots don't know how to trim doesn't make top-posting
preferable. Ever see threads where some top-post and some don't?
Ever click on a post and it starts off with "Well that isn't what I meant"
(or something), and you have NO IDEA what the person is talking about? Only
thing worse is if they don't quote ANYTHING (plenty of them around, too).
> But, we have a self-appointed "top post monitor" to try to keep us
> all in order - he/she must have a very vacuous life to be able to
> spend all that time on worrying about top posting!
There are quite a few people who detest top-posters; I usually only speak up
if the person /seems/ to have some redeeming qualities, and just doesn't
know any better (the rest I just dismiss as idiots).
Hell, *I* top-posted when I first tried Usenet -- it IS the way OE
encourages, after all -- but then some kind (and not-so-kind
folks like
GT pointed out why it's stupid, and I saw their point. Logical, effective
communication DOES require some standards and etiquette, like it or not.
> Sad!
If you took a poll of "regular" Usenetters, I bet 80% or more would prefer
that people post coherently. Sad that you don't care, I guess.
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Bill "GT showed me the light (as opposed to GE?)" S.