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Chris Hughes  
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 More options 17 Jan 2006, 08:37
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
From: Chris Hughes <ch...@cumbrian.demon.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:37:30 GMT
Local: Tues 17 Jan 2006 08:37
Subject: Re: How to curtail top posting !!
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In message <sbXyf.15933$lL4.3...@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
          Jon Ripley <n...@jonripley.com> wrote:

> John Williams (News) wrote:
>>         4. It (here) contravenes the established practice and gets up
>> everyone's nose.

> 5. Message the of flow the follow *impossible* is it responses inline
> and bottom, top of mixture a use thread a on respondents where.

> 6. Whilst posting without quoting any context (aka misuse of Google
> Groups) is common it must be remembered that top posting encourages
> quoting of the complete context of *EVERY* message in reverse order -
> without the respondent displaying any brain power. It is far too common
> to see two words of new content top posted over several kilobytes of
> unedited previous context.

> 6a. How many people scroll up and down in a message and *DO NOT* notice
> your response because the first line is:

> Me too!XXX wrote in message...

> 7. If you want people to respond to your post it is unreasonable to
> expect them to spend an inordinate amount of time rearranging your
> response in query your answer to order.

> 8. Top posting, common on M$ Usenet groups, is not the expected practice
> due to the way that people want to respond to messages but rather due to
> a specific fault in popular M$ Usenet packages which by default place
> the input focus above the message being responded to.

You were doing quite well until you got to this point. It applies to
*all* usenet packages on all platforms including RISC OS ! Its not a
fault, it the way they all work since we have not yet got AI usenet
packages!!

> 9. Bored now...

>> Having said that, it seems to be perfectly acceptable on some news groups
>> (I have heard), and there the advice of 'lurking' before posting to find
>> out the accepted method of posting is wise counsel.

> Accepted or not there is a discontinuity that is introduced through top
> posting that personally I find unacceptable.

You might but others don't - personal opinion. If other usenet groups
top post, then you follow that groups convention in that group and
inline groups you follow that convention. Its called using common
sense. You may not personally like it, but if that is the way the that
group is working so be it.

--
Chris Hughes


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