"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]
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Personally I prefer reading top postings if a person is just continuing to comment on a thread. It only becomes an issue when someone is responding to specific points.
For me this is the most efficient. My page starts at the top. That is where I like the next thread to be.
I'll take efficiency over some form of imposed custom any time.
The problem is it is not efficient. That is why Usenet etiquette has evolved as it has, with top-posting rightly deprecated.
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You must work in the public service somewhere.
Wrong again.
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"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]
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What annoys me more than top posting, which doesn't annoy me at all is people who respond to a thread and you have to look all the way down the bottom to find that they have said something quite arcane, such as, "yeah"
Not snipping extraneous material is also wrong but what you are saying is that two wrongs make a right, but they don't. Top-posting is never justified.
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"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]
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I don't agree with you. I like postings at the top, unless they are in response to specific points. Usually I read down a thread and don't need to scroll through all the same [censored] that I saw in the previous thread.
Not snipping extraneous material is also wrong but what you are saying is that two wrongs make a right, but they don't. Top-posting is never justified.
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"Alex" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]
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I think I understand where you are coming from. Although that is not a pretty image. You studied latin at school didn't you. And post means after. And that is where it should be placed. I finally see the light. Please accept my humblest apologies, oh learnd one.
I would if it was sincere, which it clearly is not.
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I would if it was sincere, which it clearly is not.
Actually, i read it as indeed being sincere, Drs. Perhaps you could back off occasionally and take the prickly hat off.
PS totally OT, but a few threads ago you mentioned you would be faster than me cos your bike's wheels were bigger than my mtb's (think of the wierdest stuff on a bike, i does). piffle! i say. Triathletes use 650c wheels to go faster, and your wheels are bigger than Lance's, but i bet you aint wearin yeller😄
What annoys me more than top posting, which doesn't annoy me at all is people who respond to a thread and you have to look all the way down the bottom to find that they have said something quite arcane, such as, "yeah"
The classic AOL reply, yes it is extreemly annoying.
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I can think of many things more important than a eutopia where only bottom dwellers exist.
Oh for Usenet before the september that never ended.
