Re: PPC Registry

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In article <uboRDmplFHA.1048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Clinton Fitch, Clinton
Fitch \(Dot\) Com! wrote:
>Good gosh....
>
>Let it go... there is no "rule" for top or bottom posting. This is a public

Of course there is, RFC1885: Netiquette guidelines.
http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html

3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews

- If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough
text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers
understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews,
especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host
to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing
the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not include the
entire original!

The RFC is informal, meaning that bottom-posting is not *the* standard,
however, it makes it a standard opinion (since AFAIK no contrary opinions
have been written).

IMHO it's far more natural to read document in one direction, especially
in long threads, instead of having to continualy scroll down to see the
original text and scrolL up to read the reply.

>forum (hence the microsoft.PUBLIC.pocketpc) with a million newsreader appls
>out there...

M$ bears a lot of the blame for the proliferation of top-posting by
placing the insert point *and* the signature above the quoted text by
default and in some cases makes it difficult *not* to top-post. So the
lazy users just top-post above the *whole* previous post instead of
cleaning up the previous post to include just the relevant parts. Not to
mention that M$, in its usual infinite wisdom and arrogance breaks RFC
concerning signature separator.

Check out http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html for a good page
describing why bottom-posting is better than top-posting (some of the
points I've made are also there).

>Get a scrolling mouse... ;-)

Irrelevant :)

>"Enfant Terrible" <r7x@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:dcicsu$acj$2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Kenneth Miles wrote:
>>> I don't think the phm reg editor works with ppc2003.
>>
>> all you really need to learn how to use newsgroup and how to reply bellow
>> an post :)

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