So you like scrolling down to the bottom of every post you
open?

SBV


"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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Top post and save the world some time.

Somehow I presumed you were smarter than that. Guess
initial impressions
can be deceiving.

Why do most newsreaders , including Microsoft's "Outlook
Express" default
to top posting?

You've asked politely, so I'll give you a straight answer.

I don't know why Outlook Express defaults to top-posting,
but I can guess.
Most emails are top-posted, so one can assume that when
OE was designed, it
followed the email convention since it is an email client
as well. OE is a
very old email client / news reader--even MS has come up
with better
software in the intervening years. And OE is probably the
weakest, least
versatile news reader currently available. I use it
because it's simple and
cheap--it came with my bundled software. If I were
serious about Usenet I'd
probably invest in one of the better pieces of software,
such as Eudora.

As for top-posting or bottom-posting, the old adage "when
in Rome . . ."
applies in spades. It is frustrating, not to mention
cumbersome, to have to
deal with top-posters when the majority of the regulars in
a NG bottom-post.
If everyone top-posted, it would conversely be annoying to
have someone
bottom-posting. Almost everyone here bottom-posts. Jon,
you, and a few
others persist in top-posting, which makes for absolutely
no continuity in
reading long threads *unless* the person who responded to
your post cuts and
pastes your post to the bottom, as I did here.

There is no rule governing where you post, just common
courtesy.

Max