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Cybe, Please see SLOTHEAD's post in the thread you initiated:
"Why top posting is bad" ...

Nedra
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"Cybe R. Wizard" wrote in message
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On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:00:01 GMT
"Nedra" wrote:

Top posters are frowned on in most other newsgroups.
What you have posted is a top post. The kind I like.

What you usually post is a bottom post.... these are the
ones that quote the previous posts .... and then the current
post. These drive me to distraction... why I seldom answer
them. Wading thru all the posts.... Arrrggghhhhhhhh

Nedra

And that's where snipping out the extranious junk comes in. Why waste
other's time and bandwidth with a bunch of text to which you are not
replying? Bottom posting /after good snipping/ is only polite but most
folks apparently don't wish to be polite. This wish is compounded by
Microsoft 'newsreaders' that give you a prompt at the top. Bad form,
still.

Cybe R. Wizard
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Top post advocation. was: Gardening - test
 

I think it really depends upon your newsreader as to whether
or not the posts are easy to follow. OE has all the posts
lumped together. Little doubt as to what the subject is...
even when the subject changes frequently ;-)

I also think it is rather foolhardy to expect this group to adhere
to any method of posting ...
We ponders all have our own favorite ways of doing things -
and so it is and ever shall be :)

Nedra
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"Cybe R. Wizard" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:42:02 GMT
"Nedra" wrote:

Cybe, Please see SLOTHEAD's post in the thread you initiated:
"Why top posting is bad" ...

Nedra

I saw it but I don't see how some random quotes from some source or the
other, mine or his/hers, make any difference to the main discussion. It
just seems natural to me to have written discussions follow a logical,
consistent, in-order order, if you will. Proper snippage, as I have
done, helps a lot, too, and the logical time progression of the thread,
however snipped or not, is preserved. However, as I've said, I don't
care how they are posted and there are no hard and fast rules. Some I
read and some I don't, top, bottom, or middle posted.

I frequent one group non-disclosable wherein the convention is to
top post exclusively, snipping everything else except the particular
text to which you are replying, but leaving it below your response. I
tell you, it's hard to follow sometimes.

In the pun group (alt.humor.puns) and the limerick groups
(alt.arts.limericks and alt,jokes.limericks) the convention is to bottom
post but snip nothing that has gone before, although posts are snipped
and a new subject line substituted accordingly whenever a thread forks
sufficiently.. Once again, though, continuity is established and
preserved in a logical time progression, regardless of the time of
propagation on any particular news server or anybody's idea of rules.

I prefer well snipped bottom posting. I read it all or not depending
upon mood and whether I am expecting responses to particular posts of
mine. Other than that I really don't care except it sure is easier
when there is at least agreement among the participants in any
particular group.

Cybe R. Wizard
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Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P.
"Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y.
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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:18:10 GMT
"Nedra" wrote:

I think it really depends upon your newsreader as to whether
or not the posts are easy to follow. OE has all the posts
lumped together. Little doubt as to what the subject is...
even when the subject changes frequently ;-)

I also think it is rather foolhardy to expect this group to adhere
to any method of posting ...
We ponders all have our own favorite ways of doing things -
and so it is and ever shall be :)

Nedra

I am fully in your corner on that and think it's time, as is so often
the case on Usenet, to agree to disagree, but still remain buddies.
I'll read your top posts sometimes, you'll read my bottom posts
sometimes. OK?

Cybe R. Wizard
--
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Original PORG "Water Wizard," R.P.
"Wize(ned) Wizard," A.P.F-P-Y.
Barely Tolerated Wizard, A.J.L & A.A.L

Top post advocation. was: Gardening - test
 

I think I'll post in the middle, just to even
things out a bit...
k30a
and the watergardening labradors
http://www.geocities.com/watergarden...ors/index.html

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Bottom posting /after good snipping/ is only polite but most
folks apparently don't wish to be polite. This wish is compounded by
Microsoft 'newsreaders' that give you a prompt at the top. Bad form,
still. Cybe R. Wizard

I'm not sure if it's always rudeness or not knowing how to use their
editing features on their keyboards correctly. I'm curious, how many people
on here all know how to do a block highlight and delete? ~ jan

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On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:00:22 -0700, ~ jan JJsPond. us wrote:

... Bad form, still.
Cybe R. Wizard

I'm not sure if it's always rudeness or not knowing how to use their
editing features on their keyboards correctly. I'm curious, how many people
on here all know how to do a block highlight and delete? ~
jan

I like the block highlight and reply feature on your reader. It's a
feature that has been copied in my own newsreader (Sylpheed-claws) and
makes snipping very easy. Just highlight the text to which you wish to
reply, hit 'reply', and everything else is snipped for you. Good job,
Forte!

Cybe -posting from Pan right now to test it's new feature set.

Gardening - test
 

nope--just lazy...
mad


From: "Cybe R. Wizard"
Organization: Interdementia-nal Consortium of Wizardly Dudes
Newsgroups: rec.ponds
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 20:05:22 GMT
Subject: Gardening - test

Bottom posting /after good snipping/ is only polite but most
folks apparently don't wish to be polite.
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but by diligent hard work, he overcame them."
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amen!
mad


From: "Nedra"
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:18:10 GMT
Subject: Top post advocation. was: Gardening - test

so it is and ever shall be :)

Nedra
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From: ~ jan JJsPond.us
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Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 21:00:22 -0700
Subject: Gardening - test

how many people
on here all know how to do a block highlight and delete? ~ jan

i do--- LOL
mad

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Why top posting is bad. was: Gardening - test
 

Besides, I know how to either scroll down, page down, use 'end,' or just
delete the danged top postings and am not too lazy to do so.
At least I have HTML under control with /this/ cool newsreader.

Cybe R. Wizard

Have to agree here. When I'm reading rec.ponds one finger of my right hand
sits on Delete an another on Page Down. Delete gives me the next message,
Page down to read all, delete, page down, continue. Only time my hands are
moving else where is to type, or drink tea. ;o)

But then, I really don't care if one is on top or bottom, I'm flexible.
evil smirk ~ jan

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