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[Ken Blake, MVP]

My whole point was that top, bottom or interspersed posting is all a
matter of personal choice.

Yes, of course. I understood that, and agree with you. Just my little joke.

If you want to Toyota post and snip the Fords and Chevys, then that's
just alright. ;-)

LOL! To tell the truth, I'm sorry I got involved in this thread at all This
subject always seems to stir up emotions that are too strong for the
importance of the subject. Someone starts out expressing a preference one
way or another, and before you know it, it's become all insults and name
calling. Not my kind of thread, which is why I've stopped responding to it.

Your preferences are clearly different from mine, but I can live with the
way you post without a problem, just as you can apparently live with the way
I post. I only wish everyone else could do the same.

 

[Wesley Vogel]

I am saying if you do not like the way I post, either do not read my posts
or plonk me.

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[Wesley Vogel]

I read the individual messages in the threads that I see in the order in
which they were posted. I read the messages individually if they all exist.
If all of the messages do not exist, I read as much as I can in the messages
that do exist and then read whatever else in the replies that have not been
snipped.

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[John John]

Wesley Vogel wrote:




So you read books, magazines and newspapers from the bottom up? Cool!

And you re-read every post down to the bottom to find out what the
poster has to add? Or maybe when you engage in a discussion the one who
speaks has to repeat everything that was said previously before he adds
his point of view? These groups are also called "discussion" groups,
posting on top has a more natural flow to the discussion.

It's a tempest in a teapot, the only thing worse than top/bottom posting
nagging are sermons from reformed alcoholics, ex-smokers and born again
Christians!

John

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Wes

You left out the bit they should have said but did not.


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[Gerry Cornell]

Well some read from right to left. Who am I
to say they should not.


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[Gerry Cornell]

Wes

I missed out three words in that post. It was meant to say:

The previous message in the thread in Outlook Express
is above not below.

Not to worry they carried on fighting each other.

Actually are news readers off topic in this newsgroup?



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Snipped.

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Wes

Doesn't work within a single conversation. Is that
contrary to some obscure Usenet convention?

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Gerry
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Click the Sent header to sort the other direction. ;-)

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Was the year by any chance 1984.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

Just a thought.


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[Leythos]

I am saying if you do not like the way I post, either do not read my posts
or plonk me.

I didn't realize that you had felt the conversation had degraded to that
level.

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Ken

I flag posts and have a good memory for what has passed.. if it has been
awhile, I read back

 

[Mike Hall - MS MVP Windows Shell/User]

Many more threads and this will reach back to 1984..

 

[Gordon]

John John wrote:

And you re-read every post down to the bottom to find out what the
poster has to add?

No, but if the poser QUOTES as per Usenet custom, they quote the question
first and the reply underneath, so you read the QUESTION first, and the
REPLY second.


Answer: because it's illogical


Question: Why is top posting not cool?


See?

 

[Gordon]

Well some read from right to left. Who am I
to say they should not.

Now who's doing apples and oranges? they STILL read top to bottom, NOT
bottom to top.
I sure hope you don't audit bottom to top......

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Mike

Leythos

Circa 470 BC might be more like it!

Middle figure in section under Ancient Greece:
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=4858824043245&lang=en-US&mkt=en-US&FORM=CVRE2

Quite obscure.

Remember people at that time thought the world was flat!
Top posting to one steeped in the traditions of the past
must be like sailing past the Pillars of Hercules to a Greek
mariner of that time.

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Gerry
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[Leythos]

Remember people at that time thought the world was flat!
Top posting to one steeped in the traditions of the past
must be like sailing past the Pillars of Hercules to a Greek
mariner of that time.

But Usenet has proven to be exactly what it is.

What you said is like proving that the ships use to sail to the edge to
prove it wasn't flat were really broken and could not get there all the
way.

 

[Stan Brown]

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:20:04 -0700 from Wesley Vogel <123WVogel955
@comcast.net>:

My whole point was that top, bottom or interspersed posting is all a matter
of personal choice.

Well, yes, and so are many things -- but that does not mean that all
choices are equally valid.

It is a matter of personal choice to smoke or not. Nonetheless it is
rude to smoke among non-smokers without first asking and receiving
permission.

 

[Stan Brown]

I think the point is that OE and some Web interfaces for Usenet
don't follow the standards that have not change and that the Usenet
service has not change in 20+ years.

What has changed during those 20+ years is the addition of broken
interfaces from MS and web based interfaces (mostly poor interfaces) to
Usenet.

One other thing has change, the addition of people that believe the
world revolves around them and to heck with all of the proper
methods/standards that make this medium easy and consistent.

When this subject path comes up, there is always someone that feels it
is people trying to impose their will on others, when, in reality, it's
just a sign of disrespect for wanting to put ones own desires over the
rest of the communities standards and methods.

<aol>
Very well put!
</aol>

 

[Gerry Cornell]

Stan

Are you saying that in a Microsoft newsgroup subscribers should ask
permission before bottom posting? I can't see that happening!

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Gerry
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