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Posted by no_one on June 18, 2008, 5:43 pm

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jchughes301@hotmail.con wrote:

>Help make usenet better. Top Post.

>I get so tired of scrolling down to see the current message. When I

>see the subject line, all I want to see is the response. If I need all

>the detail then I will scroll down.

snip

That is because people do not know how to snip the message they are
replying to.
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Posted by Sharx35 on September 4, 2008, 12:39 am

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Are you a ***** control freak net nanny??? <g>

> jchughes301@hotmail.con wrote:

>>Help make usenet better. Top Post.

>>I get so tired of scrolling down to see the current message. When I

>>see the subject line, all I want to see is the response. If I need all

>>the detail then I will scroll down.

> snip

> That is because people do not know how to snip the message they are

> replying to.

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> Help make Usenet a better place: English is read

> downwards,please don't top post. Trim replies to

> quote only relevant text.

Posted by Andrew on June 18, 2008, 7:25 pm

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jchughes301@hotmail.con wrote:

> Help make usenet better. Top Post.

Excuse me, but it's a personal preference (as well as a religious war in
USENET groups). See http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html where they cite
that most people (including me, btw) prefer bottom posting. (I think one
reads top down, usually, which IMO makes top postings unintelligible since I
need to scroll down to get the thread, then scroll up to read top posts.)

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- Andrew

Posted by Hank Arnold (MVP) on June 19, 2008, 4:39 am

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Andrew wrote:

> jchughes301@hotmail.con wrote:

>> Help make usenet better. Top Post.

> Excuse me, but it's a personal preference (as well as a religious war in

> USENET groups). See http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html where they cite

> that most people (including me, btw) prefer bottom posting. (I think one

> reads top down, usually, which IMO makes top postings unintelligible since I

> need to scroll down to get the thread, then scroll up to read top posts.)

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> Regards -

> - Andrew

I've always argued that the first response to a posting should set the
style. If it's a bottom post, then continue. If top, continue that
style. What drives me crazy is the ones where people ignore it and top
or bottom post everything. Try following *that* thread.... :-(

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Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services

Posted by Andrew on June 19, 2008, 7:39 am

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Hank Arnold (MVP) wrote:

> I've always argued that the first response to a posting should set the

> style. If it's a bottom post, then continue. If top, continue that

> style. What drives me crazy is the ones where people ignore it and top

> or bottom post everything. Try following *that* thread.... :-(

Hi Hank! Doesn't matter that much to me whichever way the thread goes....as
I said, it's a religious war (I probably could have just as easily found a
website bestowing the virtues of top posting!). It's just not as clear cut
as 'do it my way'. Whatever floats your boat - I wouldn't preach either way
"makes USENET better' and certainly wouldn't take someone else to task for
going the (more popular) other way.

Enuf on THIS OT subject for me.
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- Andrew