Don't bother scrolling down to the bottom of this post.
there's nothing worth reading there. Just a rude bottom
poster's gibberish.

SV

"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"Edgar" wrote in message
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Well, is it not discourteous to asume that all your
readers have such a
short attention span that they have to re-read
everything from way back so
that they can catch up? Also, if they have not been
paying attention why
should all those who have been have to suffer screenfuls
of unsnipped
history just to help the lazy ones?
If insufficient attention is given to constructive
snippage you cannot
blame
anyone for top posting. Jonathan Ganz always top posts
and although I
frequently disagree with what he says on non-sailing
topics I do always
look
at what he has to say because it is quick and easy,
whereas most of the
unsnipped bottom posters get instantly marked 'ignore
conversation'.

I think you're being disingenuous, Edgar. Many of Jon's
posts are
one-liners, providing too little to know to whom he is
responding, let alone
to *what* he is responding. I'm betting you frequently
jump to the bottom
of the thread when reading his posts to determine those
things. And if you
truly ignore the bottom posters, you must be reading Jon's
posts and maybe
one or two others, but no one else's.

It is lazy and inconsiderate to make people scroll down
a couple of
screens
just to read something like 'I agree' or 'You are an
idiot/gayboy/lubber/sockpuppet/whatever.
End of rant- and hey! it was bottom posted after
snippage!.

You are correct in that snip-editing is courteous. So is
bottom-posting
when it's the convention in a NG.

Max