The reason many MVPs top post is because they think it's the better to way
to post, just as the reason many non-MVPs top-post is because they think
it's the better way to post.
If so many MVP's are this ignorant and/or rude on long established
posting etiquette practiced in tens of thousands of non Microsoft
newsgroups, why should anyone accept their creditability on what
they're commenting on? Perhaps you noticed, I don't take them too
seriously. I bet I'm not the only one. <wink>
The point I've made and others too that have long experience posting
to Usenet, not just some little backwater Microsoft hangout like this,
is we know full well what's practiced here is the EXCEPTION. You go
outside the tiny little Microsoft world of newsgroups, the exact
opposite is the norm. People posting to the wider Usenet universe
quickly get labeled as boneheads when they top post and for good
reason.
The point that zooms far over the head of top posers here is you are
paddling upsteam. If the purpose of groups like this is to simply
enage in endless praise of Microsoft and for MVP's to pat each other
on the back trying to sell everybody on how clever they are then you
miss the reason WHY Microsoft set up these newsgroups in the first
place.
Hint: For their CUSTOMERS! Not for self-absorbed blowhards which sadly
in groups such as this is often overrun with. So if the purpose of
groups like this is to help users of Windows, why start off
antagonizing so many of us by doing things that serve YOU as opposed
to helping the people you're suppose to be here for?
