Posted by Beauregard T. Shagnasty on 04/22/06 02:27

Bill wrote:

> Oh, I see... IE has the current market share so I'll just stick my
> fingers in my ears and say NANANANANANAN.....

You will sound silly to your neighbors.

> If I were selling something and I knew 80 percent of the population
> prefered the item in blue I'd be rather foolish to make it in green
> wouldn't I.

Ok ... making a web site that only works for 80% of your customers is
like turning your server off for a couple of months every year. Can you
afford to lose that much business?

> Wonderful, another net cop.....

This is Rome. Do as the Romans do. Why do you think everyone who is
replying to you is NOT top-posting? Begin boilerplate:

Usenet is not one-on-one email.

open the front cover and begin reading there?
the back cover and end up at the front or do you
chapter one or do you start somewhere near
When reading a book, do you start at

If you top-post a reply to a message from several days ago, people will
still need to scroll down to see what you are replying to, then scroll
back up to read your response, because they will likely have forgotten
the original points, or need to refresh their memory. Especially for
someone who reads hundreds of posts every day.

They would also need to figure out or guess at which points you are
replying to, if the post is far along in a thread. Here's where good
inline posting is valuable.

Due to lack of trimming, TOFU was born.
Text Oben Fullquote Unten (German)
Text Over, Fullquote Under

And, if you don't quote anything, due to the nature of Usenet
propagation, the message you are replying to may not have made it to my
news-server yet, so if there is no quote, I won't know why you are
writing what you did.

And of course, *inline posting* is most desirable. With judicious
trimming.


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-bts
-Warning: I brake for lawn deer

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