Re: Kirsten Seaver's Vinland Map book- first thoughts

From: Tom McDonald (tmcdonald2672_at_nohormelcharter.net)
Date: 08/07/04 

Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2004 12:21:45 -0500

Steve Marcus wrote:

> "Inger E Johansson" <inger_e.johansson@notelia.com> wrote in message
> news:%d1Rc.7359$dx3.43522@newsb.telia.net...
>
>>"Tom McDonald" <tmcdonald2672@nohormelcharter.net> skrev i meddelandet
>>news:10h92cgsk8a525e@corp.supernews.com...

<snip>

>>>BTW, you say you don't like Seppo's 'hard words', but you left
>>>them anyway.
>>
>>To let him see that I disagreed I wrote above that I didn't like those
>
> type
>
>>of words - when have you ever written above that you don't like the
>
> abusers
>
>>stalking of me?

<snip>

>
>>You have written under the text - that I didn't do. I
>>thought you knew the difference. don't you?
>
>
> He simply disrespected you by top posting, just as you do in the vast
> majority of your own posts.

Steve,

        Inger has written about this before. She seems to think (when
it suits her, anyway) that there is a difference between
replying above a previous post and replying below a previous post.

        From what I can gather, she sees top-posted comments as
absolved from responsibility for any abusive language in the
previous post, while bottom-posted replies that don't
specifically disown abusive language in the replied-to post, in
fact agree with that language.

        I wonder whether she means that something 'sub-scribed' as in
'written under' (especially, I suppose, with a sig at the end)
means that the 'sub-scriber' 'subscribes to' or agrees with the
sentiment of the prior post. Sort of like signing a legal
document at the bottom, suggesting that the signer read and
agreed to the terms of the document.

        I know of no such provision in usenet etiquette, or in normal
communication. Do you, or does anyone else, know of any such
provision?
                
        I've asked Inger to help me understand what she means by this.
  Maybe she will. 

-- 
Tom McDonald

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