Re: Re:Subject?

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From: Phil \(purplehaz\) (I.fix.probs_at_for.you)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 17:03:47 -0400

Joh N. wrote:
> phrogee, after spending 3 minutes figuring out which end of the pen
> to use, wrote:
>
>>
>> "Phil (purplehaz)" <I.fix.probs@for.you> wrote in message
>> news:e9w66XeMEHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>> phrogee wrote:
>>>> Might be a little OT, but how do you reply to an older thread in a
>>>> new thread without the thread going to the old post? Where do you
>>>> paste the message ID, etc? Using OE.
>>>
>>>
>>> You don't. Always reply in the original thread so all can see what
>>> your talking about.
>>>
>>
>> From 3 or 4 days ago? Get serious!
>>
>> --
>> phrogee
>
> Nice to see you have more common sense, more intelligence, less
> laziness (far less)...far more...than ol' Phil does. You don't top
> post. Well done.

Bottom posting is an old left over way of doing things, when newsgroups were
only full of people who know how to use them. Once newsgroups became main
stream and newbies are all over them, top posting became acceptable. Most
newbies do not understand that they have to scroll to the bottom of the post
to get the answer, thus they miss the answers. If the answer is at the top
they see it right away. If you did tech support for a living and ran your
own newsgroups you'd know this. Newbies need top posts as they don't know to
scroll to get the answers. Heck, most can't even find their way back here.
The goal is to help the person out in the easiest way possible. Reading the
answer at the top is easier than scrolling.
If someone bottom posts, I almost always try to stay with that when
replying. If it someone asking a question, and most likely a newbie, then
you top post. Learn some tech support skills and you may add some value to
your posts.

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