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Posted by Mtr on 10/02/07 14:46
not to be overly contentious, but it is pretentious to insist on bottom
posting. All you are saying is that you want people to post in a way that
is better for you, in the way that you read newsgroups. But if I read a
thread all at once (since I am apt to read a group maybe once a week or so)
then bottom posting is a burden because of all the needless scrolling. If I
read only one newsgroup per day, then all that downward scrolling is an
unnecesary burden, too. I don't need to be refreshed on the topic because
I'm not reading many groups every day. Also, anyone reading a thread on
google groups would find the same thing - endless scrolling past old words
to get to the new words.
If you are trying to make the newsgroup more readable, then you would be
better off trying to get people to trim their replies. Your post in the
Lite Encryption thread is a good example of what not to do: over two
hundred lines of quoting to add a very few lines of new reply.
However, I appreciate your politeness.
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:58:58 -0400, Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
wrote:
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>Also, please don't top post. Thanks.
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