Re: Re: Is there a moderator?

Top_Poster_at_BITNET.edu
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:38:30 -0800

You guys need to get over this Top-Post/Bottom Post BullSh*t.

Top posting lets people who are following the thread read the updates
WITHOUT having to scroll down through an ever increasing bunch of old
stuff OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER and... and, NO, folks
DON'T clip out older stuff, they just reply and resend it all, almost
every time!

It is the DEFAULT AND ONLY ACTION in Agent. It is the DEFAULT and
ONLY ACTION in email, too. It is THE WAY to do it and has been since
before the Internet existed. Maybe you were never on BitNet. For
those not in the know, it was a collection of RSCS programs with
routing tables to send email in and out of the master server/switcher
in the northeast. I cannot remember the school it was in right now.
It may come to me. It may have been Cornell but I am not sure. It
has been a lot of years! You just came charging in at the last moment
and blasting people for doing it right!

TOP POSTING SAVES TIME.

TOP POSTING SAVES HAVING TO SWITCH WINDOWS BACK AND FORTH TO/FROM THE
SUBJECTS LIST WINDOW.

DO IT ALL YOU WANT! IT IS FAR SUPERIOR!!!

If you don't like top posting, then PLEASE SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF
EVER POST, then SCROLL UP THE POST and FINALLY, when you get to the
top (WHERE YOU STARTED), read the new information. And BE SURE TO DO
THIS EVERY TIME YOU READ ANY POST ON THE INTERNET. Please scroll to
the bottom, EVERY TIME. Remember!

THEN, and ONLY THEN, will you realize how VERY STUPID bottom posting
is! It is a HORRIBLE WASTE OF TIME and NOT THE DEFAULT ACTION of some
(all?) USENET agent programs.

Bottom Posters, here's how to handle top posting so you will feel
better about it:

GET OVER IT and HANDLE IT (make it feel like bottom posting) by
SCROLLING TO THE BOTTOM, THEN SCROLL UP, SCREEN BY SCREEN until you
come to the top and, finally, read the new information in the proper
place, where it belongs. And you will feel right since you scrolled
through all the repeated stuff on every post. Enjoy top posting and
all the stupid scrolling from the bottom to the top EVERY POST.

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 17:17:17 +0000, in sci.geo.satellite-nav Brian
Morrison <scrapspam@fenrir.org.uk> wrote:

>Mark C wrote:
>> I'd like to post a question on the usenet, but wanted to check with a
>> moderator first.
>
>Usenet only has moderation for groups that want it, this is normally
>decided during the process of setting up the group which is a formal
>process unless in the alt. hierarchy.
>
>>
>> I'm wanting to write a gps software program (commercialy) but before I
>> start, would like to post a thread/take a survey to get gps users input
>> about what they would like in a program, features, etc. SUch input could be
>> most helpful.
>
>I'm sure people here will be very happy to make suggestions.
>
>>
>> However I respect the board and don't want to use them for commercial
>> purposes that aren't allowed.
>>
>> Is this something that I can do?
>
>Yes. But firstly, please don't top post, it makes replies hard to read.
>The correct method is to respond in sequence and to trim quoted material
>down to that required to establish context. About the only time that top
>posting is OK is when you wish to bring attention to something you've
>seen and then paste in the other information after the "Hey look at
>this" introduction.
>
>I would suggest that you find out a bit more about Usenet in general and
>specifically that you search for and read the charter for the groups you
>wish to post in so that you know what is allowed and what is not. Not
>all groups have a charter, and some groups will enforce it in a more lax
>fashion than others. In some groups (especially high traffic groups) off
>topic postings will attract a very rapid and vociferous response from
>people who view their time as precious.
>
>It's important to realise that abuse *of* Usenet and abuse *on* Usenet
>are very different things, the former is not permitted because it
>affects the infrastructure of passing articles around the news servers
>and the latter is permitted providing that it does not violate the laws
>of the country where the article is posted nor the AUP of the ISP that
>the poster uses for their service.

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