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John Fields
- Jan 1, 1970
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Whoever dishes out the first insult loses the debate
Think so?
Then go **** yourself, maroon, and see who's left standing when it's
all over.
Hint: It won't be you.
Whoever dishes out the first insult loses the debate
Tim Williams said:I wouldn't mind. If I listened to all the previous posts, only the new
text, at the top, would be of interest. If I need my memory jogged I can
listen on and the proceeding post will become clear.
Bottom posting on text-to-voice would be horrible. You have to skip
through all the quoted text, at the very least, in order to hear the new
information. If you don't know what's there, fine, but that's beside the
point since most posts arrive.
Think so?
Then go **** yourself, maroon, and see who's left standing when it's
all over.
John Fields
Professional Circuit Designer
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Well, for starters, because it _is_ in printed form?
But even if it weren't, just imagine listening to a text-to-voice
conversion of top posting.
Ugh.
I wouldn't mind. If I listened to all the previous posts, only the new
text, at the top, would be of interest.
mc said:I think some attributions were scrambled, which is just as well under the
circumstances.
How about saying, "In addition to the following see
www.something.com/something" ? That's a kind of remark that makes perfect
sense prepended to the beginning of an existing message, and it does not
interfere with readability.
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Agreed.
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top-posted to EVERY message that has quoted content. A bottom-posting
purist would presumably want that information put after the quoted messages,
not ahead of them.
The bottom-posting-only crowd wants us to have to page down every time we
read any message at all -- sometimes through more than one screenful of "In
message xxxxx, yyyyy writes." Top posting allows us to make a reply
immediately visible and save everybody from having to page down.
The bottom line? Top posting is an almost universally accepted practice.
It wasn't in 1980, but it is now. And the reason it has caught on is that
it meets practical needs.
The trouble with bottom posting is that you have to read the whole previous
message AGAIN (even though, in your threaded newsreader, you just read it)
before you get to the new stuff.
I wouldn't mind. If I listened to all the previous posts, only the new
text, at the top, would be of interest. If I need my memory jogged I can
listen on and the proceeding post will become clear.
Bottom posting on text-to-voice would be horrible. You have to skip through
all the quoted text, at the very least, in order to hear the new
information. If you don't know what's there, fine, but that's beside the
point since most posts arrive.
month period looks at the post, he should be able to garner all the
information he needs in a chronological as it happened manner.
No, you do not. If you are new to the thread, you SHOULD read the
entire post to get what it is about. If you are familiar with the
thread, it should be NO problem for your supposedly smarter than a
gorilla brain to SCROLL (a popular computer term) DOWN to the end of
the post, OR to the first area where a fresh response resides (for
interspersed responses), and keep right on reading new material...
If you had just conformed, you might have a clue by now. A large
portion of the world is STILL on dial up, and top poster posting
practices are among the most wasteful there are.
Get a clue. NOT EVERYONE views posts in threaded manner. Many list
even the posts chronologically, so you idiot googletards and other
forms of the incorrect manner in which to reply need to bone up!
I think some attributions were scrambled, which is just as well under the
circumstances.
Polite circuit designer, too, from the look of it...
mc said:Won't he be using a threaded newsreader that already does this for him?
I'm curious. Those of you who object strenuously to top posting: What
newsreader software are you using,
and what type of user interface? UNIX console?
This is not the proper response.
You have to explain how you would race up to Judge Judy's desk and slap a
piece of paper on top of the docket that says.....
'MC is a **** Tard'
mc said:Won't he be using a threaded newsreader that already does this for him?
I'm curious. Those of you who object strenuously to top posting: What
newsreader software are you using, and what type of user interface? UNIX
console?
But even if it weren't, just imagine listening to a text-to-voice
conversion of top posting.
Common John, you're a smart guy - use your logic
This is how the conversation would go reading bottom posted conversation
Hi John - how are today
How are you?
How is your wife?
Get the picture?
Now - with top posting