Top posting, just for fun !!
In my operation, with a few thousand folks writing, and toooooooooo many of
them writing to me or copying to me, top posting is cool.
If you know the deal that's underway, you already know what's underneath.
If you know nothing about it, it gives you a great reason to not read it.
Top of the tops !!
--
Sandy
Verneuil-sur-Seine
*******
La vie, c'est comme une bicyclette,
il faut avancer pour ne pas perdre l'équilibre.
-- Einstein, A.
Dans le message de news:[email hidden],
Sorni <[email hidden]> a réfléchi, et puis a déclaré :
Quoted message said:M Santos said:"Sorni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...
Quoted message said:M Santos wrote:
> In the first place, get over yourself. In the second place, My
> problem *was* difficulty posting messages and replies to THIS
> particular group. I included an apology in the original post. If
> that's not good enough for you, then you're probably a jerk.
While you're right, of course ("terms of service" -- give us a
break!), Mr. Press IS correct about your top-posting: it's a PITA.
(See how I just deleted all the other stuff rather than go to the
trouble of rearranging it all?)
Give it (posting your reply UNDER the text you're addressing) a
shot; you'll never go back.
Bill "testing, testing" S.
In the interest of respecting the good folks of this NG, I'll try to
remember not to top post, but please tell me--
What's the big deal? Who made this silly rule, and what stick was
lodged up his or her backside when he or she came up with it?
Just curious
First, thanks. Second, when a thread gets "involved", it's much
easier to follow if people adhere to generally accepted posting
conventions. (Sounds better than rules? I'm sure there's a FAQ
about this, too.) Also helps if people bother to TRIM excess stuff,
as often you'll see like 12 KBs of text and scroll down just to find
a one-line comment or something.
The idea is to give a NEW READER some idea of what the heck you're
talking about. If they just see something like "That's what I
thought, too" with a whole bunch of quoted stuff below it, how do
they know WHAT you're agreeing with? (Especially if some people in
the thread top-posted while most didn't! That throws /everything/
off.)
Check out a little program called "Quotefix" for OE. You can set it
to place the cursor at the bottom automatically; I chose not to,
since I like to scroll down and answer point by point (deleting old
stuff along way) -- but it also does some neat stuff like "color
code" reply trees so it's much easier to spot new text, AND give life
to little emoticon thingies by animating 'em. (Thus 8-O becomes a
purple flashy guy and not just an 8 and an 'O'.)
What was the question?
Bill "long-winded, for me" S.
