Not off topic at all. I feel that this ' top/bottom ' posting is one
of the most trivializing pieces of ' netequette ' ever misused by
people. Personal attacks have no place in a public forum and it's not
my intention to attack / flame but this is a group of specialized or
applied knowledge / content whose subject area does not lend itself to
top or bottom posting.
Top posting refers to putting your answer before the quoted material
you are responding to, read a million or so ' missives ' here and you
will see that this practice does not happen that often.
"The USENET was born before GUI tools were invented ' non binary '
readers like Outlook Express are dangerous, get Forte Agent from
http://www.forteinc.com/ Quote: "The day Microsoft makes something
that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum
cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge"
This is a technical newsgroup and responding to paragraph led
questions is impossible and unhelpful with either top or indeed bottom
posting. Responding to respective separate points in the same article,
makes it a requirement to put your response below each individually.
Ensuring proper chronological order, is all that is needed to make
reading both easier and more logical.
' Snipping ' is ok so long as you summarize the original text, doing
so will keep the question / response in context, many people pay for
connectivity by the minute, and the longer your message is, the more
they pay.
I assume that individuals speak for themselves, an included signature
kept short is generally accepted as the international norm, but
unappointed net preachers / police / Nazi's who include lines in their
sig which constitute offensive and unworkable rules should moderate
their behaviour in technical groups.
BoroLad
