Re: Bring Back the HP 15C Scientific Calculator

From: Richard Schultz (schultr_at_mail.biu.ack.il)
Date: 08/11/04 

Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:42:46 +0000 (UTC)

In article <cfb71301v5g@news1.newsguy.com>, Mike Henry <michaelhenry@msn.com> wrote:

: If one is reading the messages in a thread, than one has already read
: whatever is being quoted in the reply which currently has one's attention.
: It's then a waste of time to wade through all the quoting at the top to get
: to the new stuff in the bottom posted reply.

This is one of the few times that I am being less polite than Uncle Al.
You are an idiot.

: Top posting seems logical to
: me and reasonably adult, but I'll grant you that the battle-hardened
: Usenet-ers mostly insist on bottom posting. That always seemed a little
: anal to me, though, and I've read enough of your posts here to expect a less
: orthodox view on the subject.
 
That's because most battle-hardened Usenet-ers (a) believe in reading
material in its context and (b) know how to edit their posts. Even in
the days when everyone bottom-posted (long before Uncle Al had heard of
Usenet, btw), it was considered extremely bad form to quote 100 lines of
text to add 2 lines of your own. In addition to making it more difficult
to follow the discussion, top-posting encourages that kind of waste of
bandwidth [tm].

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Richard Schultz schultr@mail.biu.ac.il
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Opinions expressed are mine alone, and not those of Bar-Ilan University
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"You don't even have a clue about which clue you're missing."

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