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Jon Ripley  
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 More options 17 Jan 2006, 00:50
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.misc
From: Jon Ripley <n...@jonripley.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:50:32 GMT
Local: Tues 17 Jan 2006 00:50
Subject: Re: How to curtail top posting !!
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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.

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.

Anyways,
Jon Ripley
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http://jonripley.com/
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