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Rob Oldfield
Yes. At least for UK viewers.
T
Tom Shelton
The crash problem is fixed in latter versions - but it didn't matter if
you were in text only mode or not. Not that either one of those bugs,
the input type crash bug and the begin bug are that common. And yes,
you can get tools to fix the quoting, but still OE is not a very good
reader. It encourages top posting by placing the cursor and the sig at
the top of the post. Most place the sig and the cursor at the bottom.
I guess I've gotten too used to my text only reader.
Aah, another reason to hate those things
C
Charles Law
Charles
!me just that's maybe But .type to painstaking quite but ,read to difficult
more only not is It .annoying most the of one backwards replying find I
!me just that's maybe But .type to painstaking quite but ,read to difficult
more only not is It .annoying most the of one backwards replying find I
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Liz
Charles Law said:
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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
* "Rob Oldfield said:
Thank you!
H
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
Cor,
Yes.
* "Cor Ligthert said:
Yes.
C
Charles Law
)-;
Liz said:
S
Sven Groot
Cor said:
Just for the sake of completeness, the arguments against top posting are:
1. There is no sense of continuity within a single post with top posting.
This is especially annoying if a reply appears before the original message
(which happens due to the way usenet propagation works), even more so if the
original message never appears at all.
2. It is more difficult to establish the exact context if you're replying to
a specific part of a message.
3. It discourages proper snipping. When replying to a message using top
posting, people tend to leave the entire original message at the bottom
instead of just those parts necessary to establish context. This wastes
bandwidth.
And I still like this example, from the comp.lang.c++ FAQ:
A: Top Posting!
Q: What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?
^_^
FWIW, I used to be an avid top poster, until I got in a few newsgroups where
it was pretty much expected you didn't. I just complied with the status quo
there, and have since grown partial to bottom posting. I'll never top post
again, but I don't hate people who do it.
S
Sven Groot
Herfried said:
I typically find that outside of the microsoft.* hierarchy people usually
expect you not to top post. It's not really a language dependant thing.
I use OE-QuoteFix myself, and love it. Besides fixing the Quoted-Printable
bug and the line wrapping on quoted messages, it also supplies the means to
let OE bottom post by default (even when auto inserting a signature),
message colouring etc.
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
S
scorpion53061
Tom,
Is there a free newsreader out there you would recommend other than Outlook
Express?
Is there a free newsreader out there you would recommend other than Outlook
Express?
S
scorpion53061
* "Cor Ligthert said:
LOL !!!
C
Cor Ligthert
Hallo,
One of the netiquettes is not to answer newsgroup questions, which are
placed in future.
This behaviour is well known because in this case the message stays in most
newsreaders in top op the reader.
The netiquette says not to answer those questions.
For those who are new can have the excuse that they did not see it, however
strange is that those messages are mostly especially answered by people who
should know that in my opinion.
No answer needed, would only make even more dirt.
Cor
One of the netiquettes is not to answer newsgroup questions, which are
placed in future.
This behaviour is well known because in this case the message stays in most
newsreaders in top op the reader.
The netiquette says not to answer those questions.
For those who are new can have the excuse that they did not see it, however
strange is that those messages are mostly especially answered by people who
should know that in my opinion.
No answer needed, would only make even more dirt.
Cor
H
Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
* "Sven Groot said:
I recommend to use this tool when working with OE, although it slowed
down my machine...
S
scorpion53061
Hmmmm oh well 28 answers isn't so bad
S
scorpion53061
Cmon Liz be nice.
C
Cor Ligthert
Hi Scorpion,
And I was so glad that this answer came at a message from a real Brit with a
name that let me always think on a stiff uperlip.
Cor
And I was so glad that this answer came at a message from a real Brit with a
name that let me always think on a stiff uperlip.
Cor
C
Cor Ligthert
I knew it Scorpion, that was the reason I did not answer your first
question.
)
Cor
question.
)Cor
S
scorpion53061
And I was so glad that this answer came at a message from a real Brit with
a
?
What do you mean?
a
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What do you mean?
C
Cor Ligthert
Hi Scorpion,
Who can better speak English than an Englishman?
Altough I thought that Charles was not from the Thames valey as OHM.
Cor
Who can better speak English than an Englishman?
Altough I thought that Charles was not from the Thames valey as OHM.
Cor
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William Ryan eMVP
I agree but I did it in COLA a few times and you'd have thought i was bill
gates by the way they responded. I've been chastised a few other times too,
although I can't imagine any posting style being that big of a deal. I also
find top posting much easier to read ...
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W.G. Ryan, eMVP
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gates by the way they responded. I've been chastised a few other times too,
although I can't imagine any posting style being that big of a deal. I also
find top posting much easier to read ...
--
W.G. Ryan, eMVP
http://forums.devbuzz.com/
http://www.knowdotnet.com/williamryan.html
http://www.msmvps.com/WilliamRyan/