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

Easy enough to tell Jax from Neal. Simplyask either one of them to
explain how "Sails Work?" one is a Newtonian & the other a Bernoulian.
Do I really have to explain who is which:^)

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

Wouldn't have to if you weren't lazy. Because your too lazy to delete what your not
discussing your laziness causes work for other people. Rude, inconsiderate, anti-social
behavior don't ya think?

Cheers,
Ellen

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"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in
message
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"Scotty" wrote
So you like scrolling down to the bottom of every post
you
open?

Wouldn't have to if you weren't lazy. Because your
too lazy to delete what your not
discussing your laziness causes work for other people.
Rude, inconsiderate, anti-social
behavior don't ya think?

Cheers,
Ellen

"Jeff" wrote in message
. ..
Walt wrote:
jlrogers±³© wrote:

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

Most do not. Only one that I am aware of does.

The reason is that it was designed by people ignorant of 30 years of
usenet conventions.

Fortunately, you can change the configuration and never be accused of
being a "top-posting ****wit" again. (not my words, btw)

//Walt
I hate bottom posters. They are Scum of the Earth!

. . . and damned proud of it. g

Max

"Edgar" wrote in message news:VP-dnS5FnqjeQ-v

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

"DSK" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote
As for top-posting or bottom-posting, the old adage "when in Rome . . ."

Brain-dead conformist!

I'll bet you drive on the right when in England, eh?

Max

"Scotty" wrote in message
...
So you like scrolling down to the bottom of every post you
open?

I knew you were responding to my post, but not which one specifically. So
in this case I had to scroll down through a bunch of garbage you should have
snipped in order to see my post, and then back up to take another look at
your response.

You post some on top and some on the bottom. Why?

Max

"Ellen MacArthur" wrote in message
reenews.net...

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

Wouldn't have to if you weren't lazy. Because your too lazy to delete
what your not
discussing your laziness causes work for other people. Rude,
inconsiderate, anti-social
behavior don't ya think?

Scotty lazy, rude, inconsiderate and anti-social?? P'shaw. Surely you jest
.. . . g

Max

"Scotty" wrote in message
news
no

No what?

Max