Re: Starlord the Top Poster




Mij Adyaw wrote:

What is wrong with top posting? It makes sense so that the
reader doesn't have to scroll through all of the older
messages in the thread if he has previously read them.

Evidence, please. I believe that if you were to examine every
bottom-post in sci.astro.amateur from the last month, you would
not find a single one that has "all of the older messages in
the thread." In fact, the vast majority are properly trimmed
so that the reply starts well up on on the first page, and many
fit the enire post on one page.

You are confusing two different things; whether to top post or
bottom post, and whether to trim the quouted material or not to
trim the quouted material. Top-posters, being as they are rude
and selfish (they make 20 readers to extra work to save one
writer -- themselves -- a small amount of effort), tend to also
not trim, but the two are not inherently linked.

Did you bother to read even one of the URLs explaing this?
Do you have any counterarguments to the claims made there?

Read and learn:

Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html

How do I quote correctly in usenet?
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

Common Mistakes in Usenet Postings and How to Avoid Them
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/mail-news-errors.html#quoting

Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

+What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html

Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes with this automated fix!
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

READ and LEARN. Or show yourself to be unwilling to learn.
The above URLs refute your arguments. Read them, Educate
yourself on the topic you are posting about.




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