You've got nothing better to do than whine about posting styles?
There is no formally preferred posting style in the MS groups. this has been
rehashed so many times it's ridiculous. I use at various times all the different
methods....top post, bottom post, and inline post... depending on the situation.
Any "rules" that may be cited are not rules at all, but either "guidelines" or
personal opinion . My own personal "preferred" style when appropriate is inline
replies.
See here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/conduct/default.mspx
You don't agree, so it's 'whining' ?
This isn't a private Microsoft "Community".
Microsoft rules don't apply here.
This is an open, unmoderated usenet newsgroup.
Yes, you can post however you want to, but it a multi-answer thread, it
screws up who said what and when.
Just because you personally post however you like doesn't make it
courteous or right for the "Community".
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top-post Prev T Next top-post: n., v.
[common] To put the newly-added portion of an email or Usenet
response before the quoted part, as opposed to the more logical
sequence of quoted portion first with original following. The
problem with this practice is neatly summed up by the following
FAQ entry:
A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
This term is generally used pejoratively with the implication
that the offending person is a newbie, a Microsoft addict
(Microsoft mail tools produce a similar format by default), or
simply a common-and-garden-variety idiot.
One major problem with top-posting is that people who do it all
too frequently quote the entire parent message rather than
trimming it down to those portions relevent to their reply — this
makes threads bulky and unnecessarily difficult to read and
arouses the righteous ire of experienced Internet residents (this
style is called “TOFU” for “text over, fullquote under”, or
sometimes “jeopardy-style quoting”). Another problem is that top-
posters often word their replies on the assumption that you just
read the previous message, even though their perversity has put
it further down the page than you have yet read.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html