All points well taken. I guess I'm in the minority when I say I really don't want to read everyone's replies over and over again when they're quoted.
The little plus and minus signs (+ / - ) in my reader make it possible for me to expand a thread & read only the messages I choose to read. My attention span and powers of retention are good enough that I don't need to then have everything quoted to me again and again as the replies pour in. If I were to read a top-post and not get what the author was saying, I don't think it would kill me to scroll down & see what the original message was.
At any rate, unless bottom-posting becomes a law, I'll probably continue to post the way I always do. Those who choose to do so can just skip reading my posts.
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"Ignoramus18155" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
|| At any rate, unless bottom-posting becomes a law, I'll probably || continue to post the way I always do. Those who choose to do so can || just skip reading my posts. || Thanks, I'll do that. Why would anyone want to try to wade through screwed up threads toi read something posted by someone who's too lazy to do it right? Do you read books from the bottom of the page to the top too? -- Peter 270/219/180 website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo
"marengo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news😄jkJd.375$1X.40@lakeread07...
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"patte" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
|| At any rate, unless bottom-posting becomes a law, I'll probably || continue to post the way I always do. Those who choose to do so can || just skip reading my posts. || Thanks, I'll do that. Why would anyone want to try to wade through screwed up threads toi read something posted by someone who's too lazy to do it right? Do you read books from the bottom of the page to the top too? -- Peter 270/219/180 website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo
In news😄jkJd.375$1X.40@lakeread07, marengo <[email hidden]> stated | Thanks, I'll do that. Why would anyone want to try to wade through | screwed up threads toi read something posted by someone who's too | lazy to do it right? Do you read books from the bottom of the page | to the top too? -- | Peter | 270/219/180 | website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo
that's call speed reading. you can do it upside down, in a vertical line, in the figure of eight, or in a wave line, or whatever. have you not read tony buzan's book?
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"patte" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
|| At any rate, unless bottom-posting becomes a law, I'll probably || continue to post the way I always do. Those who choose to do so can || just skip reading my posts. || Thanks, I'll do that. Why would anyone want to try to wade through screwed up threads toi read something posted by someone who's too lazy to do it right? Do you read books from the bottom of the page to the top too? -- Peter 270/219/180 website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo
