Re: Ace, Kevin and other MVPs

From: Ace Fekay [MVP] (PleaseSubstituteMyActualFirstName&LastNameHere_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/22/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:04:21 -0500

In news:uyDLNY6DEHA.684@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
William Stacey [MVP] <staceywREMOVE@mvps.org> posted their thoughts, then I
offered mine
>
> I don't have any proof, but I suspect the real start of bottom
> posting was a design desision made by the first NG reader designer
> and people got used to it and thought it must always be so. At the
> time it seemed like a natural thing to do. You could see question
> and answer in order from top to bottom. However, with new readers
> that can group the threads and order the replies (e.g. Outlook
> Express), this is not really needed anymore. I personally don't want
> to see multiple times the post(s) before the reply, because I read it
> already in the thread and just want to see what the next person says
> about it without all the other stuff. The one time it can come in
> handy is when you want to email the whole thread to someone and not
> have to combine a bunch of threads one by one. However, even this is
> not really doable anymore as most people chop up the quotes to
> inline, etc. I accept we will have to deal with all methods for some
> time. The important thing is the questions get answered. Cheers!

Sounds good. I usually try (if not in a hurry) to snip out the previous
stuff, since it's just too much, especially ipconfig and netdiag responses,
etc. But I'll probably continue to bottom post, since I've been doing it
awhile that way. Once in awhile you'll catch me top posting as well... 

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Ace
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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory
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