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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"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'.

Well, not always... especially now that I've tweaked the registry to
default to bottom posting. :-)

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.

Default is responding to you Max.

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


What's the convention here?

Not sure exactly, but I respond to more bottom posters than top posters.
Whether they top or bottom post has nothing to do with whether I respond,
but it seems I respond to more bottom posters than top. You are the prime
exception.

Max

"Edgar" wrote in message

No I do not ignore them and do read most of them. But when the unsnipped
stuff gets excessive I give up and hit 'ignore'

Same here.

Max

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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Scotty lazy, rude, inconsiderate and anti-social??
P'shaw. Surely you jest
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That's what they used to write on my report cards.

. . . followed by "wets his pants and refuses to use the restroom."

Max

"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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When I started posting here, 8 to 10 years ago, most everyone top-posted
and when someone bottom posted it was met with hoots and hollers.

Do you have to scroll to the bottom of every message to read the most
recent? Even if you have been following the thread for 72 replies?

Go top post on rec.motorcycles.harley and see the response you receive.

A bit extreme, to be sure, but it makes my point well. Most people prefer
bottom posting. Top posting is lazy, not to mention discontinuous.

Max

On mine it was, "Jerry talks entirely too much."

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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Scotty lazy, rude, inconsiderate and anti-social??
P'shaw. Surely you jest
. . . g


That's what they used to write on my report cards.

S

"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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When I started posting here, 8 to 10 years ago, most
everyone top-posted and
when someone bottom posted it was met with hoots and
hollers.

Do you have to scroll to the bottom of every message to
read the most
recent? Even if you have been following the thread for 72
replies?

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"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


Yes. Dumb, ain't it?

"Maxprop" wrote in message
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Scotty lazy, rude, inconsiderate and anti-social??
P'shaw. Surely you jest
. . . g


That's what they used to write on my report cards.

. . . followed by "wets his pants and refuses to use the
restroom."

Why would I use the restroom if I already wet my pants?

S

"Maxprop" wrote in message
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"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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When I started posting here, 8 to 10 years ago, most
everyone top-posted
and when someone bottom posted it was met with hoots and
hollers.

Harley riders are all idiots to begin with.

Scotty


Do you have to scroll to the bottom of every message to
read the most
recent? Even if you have been following the thread for
72 replies?

Go top post on rec.motorcycles.harley and see the
response you receive.

A bit extreme, to be sure, but it makes my point well.
Most people prefer
bottom posting. Top posting is lazy, not to mention
discontinuous.

Max

On mine it was he should be in the next grade. If not possible, then tell
him to stop arguing with me.

"jlrogers±³©" wrote in message
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On mine it was, "Jerry talks entirely too much."

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"Scotty" wrote in message
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"Maxprop" wrote in message
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Scotty lazy, rude, inconsiderate and anti-social??
P'shaw. Surely you jest
. . . g


That's what they used to write on my report cards.

S







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