Re: OT Coleman PowerMate Generator


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RST Engineering (jw) wrote:
Come on, fellers, learn to snip.

Jim

Thats the problem with bottom posting!

bottom posting is UseNet convention.

Oh really? Please kindly show me this rule?


do you know the difference between "rule" and "convention?

Yes there is a Usenet RULE about Off Topic posting. Which seems to be
the "convention" on S.E.D.

--
Joe Leikhim K4SAT

There seems to be an unwitten rule in usenet that there will always
will be
someone available to tell you when you have broken a convention.
Mike




WRT top posting,when a new person views a top posted reply,they probably
do
not know just what the reply is to until they scroll down and read the
last post,the one being replied to. Worse if someone "snips" the post for
brevity.

Let me ask you, this thread is about 20 posts long, how many of these
did you have to scroll to the bottom to read. I'll guess almost all. I'm
sure you didn't reread every post.
A new person could read the original post and know the subject. He could
also read a top post and reply to it on top. With bottom posting, everyone
that reads the thread must scroll to the bottom. For my purposes top posting
would be great. There may be some good reason that bottom posting became the
convention, but for most people reading the thread in almost real time, it's
not the best method. With top posting
a few people may need to scroll down to catch up, but not every reader, like
bottom posting requires. Mike


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