Top posters This month Nov 2009

[Olórin]

This, however, is not a forum for discussing netiquette, but rather for
discussing one particular operating system.

I suggest you Google "netiquette" for more information.



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Fully aware of "netiquette", thanks very much, but see this thread's title.
It wasn't an "XP Basics" issue in the first place, more of a diversion, so
your post is as much OT as mine - if either is.

Do you police folks' posting formats at the same time as wearing your Off
Topic hat, or does that have its own little badge?

 

[Olórin]

But there wasn't a problem raised in this thread. Having never really seen
it discussed, I was curious about top-posting in e-mails, as opposed to
newsgroups, and this seemed like an appropriate thread to bring it up in.

I wasn't seeking perfection (although striving for ease-of-reading is surely
no bad thing?), I don't know where you got that from.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Shenan

I know but I was trying to make a point

 

[RobertVA]

Top posters are the Devil. You are forced to read the message and rely
upside down. The end is the beginning. People that trim useless text
when they reply are OK by me. What really bothers me is people that
don't use their smell checkers. There is nothing like bad smelling.

So they're.

So their.

So there.

But sometimes I have to turn my smell checker off after eating beans or
cabbage (especially if I've been eating beans AND cabbage!).

 

[Andy]

ok i have just seen alot of complaining by others about top posting.
as i see if if somone askes a qustion and somone gives them an answer its ok
by me .

 

[Twayne]

In

No you should post your reply immediately below the text you are
replying to.

And yes, that goes for e-mails as well.

"No problem at all. Just scroll down to the bottom of the page and
read backwards."
"Only thing is ... I forgot where we started."
"How right you are."
"Yeah ... sure does make us stand out, doesn't it?"
"Maybe they're just not as clever as we are."
"I wonder why nobody else top-posts?"
"That's nice."
"I'm a top-poster too."
"Yes."
"Are you a top-poster?"
"Hi."
"Hi."

A conversation between two top-posters:

And, it's fine. Each already knows what they said to the other. Seldom to
they have to look thru the historical part of the posts. It's faster, the
response is right there in front of them with no need to scroll down to get
to the response of a longer post, and they are quite happy with their
conversation.
If you're coming into the middle of the conversation, that's your
problem: The post wasn't addressed to you. And that makes this example your
problem, no one elses.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

In

Simply ignore those that complain about top posting.

Better yet, if you don't like it, don't read it. There's no one forcing you
to read posts that annoy you. I love top/bottom/inline posting threads; the
idiots and narcissists all just come crawling out of the woodwork with their
own attempts to force it to be one way or the other. On Usenet, wysiwyg I'm
afraid and expecting anyone to change to accomodate YOU is your own problem.
Don't like it? Don't read it next time.

HTH,

Twayne`

 

[Twayne]

In

Did you see the part about Kill Files?

Kill Files are useless these days. You still see the killed poster in the
responses.

 

[Peter]

Kill Files are useless these days. You still see the killed poster in the
responses.

Should I announce your presence?

Woops!

 

[Peter Foldes]

adhere to the protocol of that forum.

Which forum are you talking about here Jacob ? There is no protocol in this one
(windowsxp.basic)