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What happened to top posting here?
That's my question, one of things I always liked about this group, top
posting, last few days it seems 1/2 or more are bottom, pain in the ass to read. |
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Posting is like a roll of toilet paper some install it so it puss out from
the top and others install it so it pulls from the bottom however, the end result is the same your butt gets wiped. HarryS "Greg" > wrote in message news:PwPId.150690$Xk.94034@pd7tw3no... > That's my question, one of things I always liked about this group, top > posting, last few days it seems 1/2 or more are bottom, pain in the ass to > read. > |
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I hear ya. Good thing I only use scroll mice, to scroll through a page and
a half of quote just to read the one word reply. This is the point where someone will chime and and say that the way they read the news either through a program or via the web isn't nested so they need to see the original message before reading the reply. To that I say, get a real newsreader dip****...there are better ways to do it. "Greg" > wrote in message news:PwPId.150690$Xk.94034@pd7tw3no... > That's my question, one of things I always liked about this group, top > posting, last few days it seems 1/2 or more are bottom, pain in the ass to > read. > |
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>What happened to top posting here?
Top posting shouldn't be done because it's rude. The convention was set long before your newsreader was written. We COULD drive on the left side of the road, and have steering wheels on the right side, but those conventions later became law in the USA. There will be no law on the usenet, but if you ignore convention you will be thought of by others as being lazy, ignorant, ill-mannered, or all three. http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Etiquette/ -- Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California |
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Welcome to the newsgroup rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys.top-or-bottom Long ago the regulars here figured out that there were a finite number of arguments one could make about wheither it was better to top-post or to bottom-post but that in the end none of them ever solved anything, so to save a lot of time spent typing, downloading and reading all the way around they simply assigned numbers to each reason. Even-numbered arguments are pro-top posting, odd-numbers arguments are pro-bottom posting or interleaved responses. It works like this: OP: Top-posting is good! Bottom-posting is Evil! 1R: 2! 2R: 7, ya ****wit. OP: 4, 6 3R: Oh, come on, surely 3 and 11, no? 4R: When in Rome: 3 and 4. 2R: 12 _and_ 20. Yugo-driving panty-waist. 3R: When I started, 1, out of wood; 9, in the snow, both ways. 4R: Whatever. Aren't we here to talk Jeeps? 2R: 19, and learn to trim. 3R> Get a real 15, 17, 21. 5R: Hydrogen is the fuel of the future! 6R,3R,OP,4R: Troll! 7R: Top-posting is evil! Bottom-posting is Good! 4R: Oh, fark. Are we doing top-posting/bottom-posting again? 1R: 2! 8R: 7, you ****witt. On Sun, 23 Jan 2005, Greg wrote: > That's my question, one of things I always liked about this group, top > posting, last few days it seems 1/2 or more are bottom, pain in the ass to > read. > > > -- "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with whips....r" R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days. |
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA! Damn! Thanks for the laugh.
Paul Calman wrote: > Top posting shouldn't be done because it's rude. The convention was set long > before your newsreader was written. > We COULD drive on the left side of the road, and have steering wheels on the > right side, but those conventions later became law in the USA. There will be > no law on the usenet, but if you ignore convention you will be thought of by > others as being lazy, ignorant, ill-mannered, or all three. > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Etiquette/ > -- __________________________________________________ _________ tw 71 Bill Stroppe Baja Bronco 03 TJ Rubicon - Rubicon Express 4.5" 01 XJ Sport There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness." -- Dave Barry Pronunciation: 'jEp Function: noun Date: 1940 Etymology: from g. p. (G= 'Government' P= '80 inch wheelbase') A small general-purpose motor vehicle with 80-inch wheelbase, 1/4-ton capacity, and four-wheel drive used by the U.S. army in World War II. (Please remove the OBVIOUS to reply by email) __________________________________________________ _________ |
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Well, the trouble with gear heads is that we are a rather schitzophrenic bunch. "Greg" > wrote in message news:PwPId.150690$Xk.94034@pd7tw3no... > That's my question, one of things I always liked about this group, top > posting, last few days it seems 1/2 or more are bottom, pain in the ass to > read. > We will post on the top or the bottom. Kind of makes it hard to follow ... |
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Top posting for me.
Paul Calman wrote: >>What happened to top posting here? > > > Top posting shouldn't be done because it's rude. The convention was set long > before your newsreader was written. > We COULD drive on the left side of the road, and have steering wheels on the > right side, but those conventions later became law in the USA. There will be > no law on the usenet, but if you ignore convention you will be thought of by > others as being lazy, ignorant, ill-mannered, or all three. > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Etiquette/ > |
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Not in the Jeep NGs. We have more common sense than this. Calling most of
us rude is quite rude indeed. Tomes "Paul Calman" > wrote in message ... > >What happened to top posting here? > > Top posting shouldn't be done because it's rude. The convention was set long > before your newsreader was written. > We COULD drive on the left side of the road, and have steering wheels on the > right side, but those conventions later became law in the USA. There will be > no law on the usenet, but if you ignore convention you will be thought of by > others as being lazy, ignorant, ill-mannered, or all three. > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Etiquette/ > > -- > Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California > > |
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Paul:
When in Rome, do as the Romans. The polite thing to do is to read a particular newsgroup for a few days and see what is the "norm" for that newsgroup. On this newsgroup, most people top post, which I find much easier to read. No unnecessary long scrolling. Whether top or bottom posting, the correct way is to clip most of the unnecessary text from the previous posts in your reply. That really makes posts much easier to read, either way. Tom > Top posting shouldn't be done because it's rude. The convention was set long > before your newsreader was written. > We COULD drive on the left side of the road, and have steering wheels on the > right side, but those conventions later became law in the USA. There will be > no law on the usenet, but if you ignore convention you will be thought of by > others as being lazy, ignorant, ill-mannered, or all three. > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > http://dmoz.org/Computers/Usenet/Etiquette/ > > -- > Paul Calman, Hathaway Pines, California > > |
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