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From: Art (noonehere_at_someplace.com)
Date: 12/31/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 22:39:56 -0500

> On 27/12/2004 15:55, barbibiz wrote:
>
>> BTW.... I dont quite understand that posting on the bottom anymore, all
>> the
>> emails I get follow on from the original post, so it doesnt take as long
>> to
>> just open each one and see the reply on the top other than having to
>> scroll
>> right to the bottom it can be quite a long way..
>> Felicity

"Brian S. Craigie" <bcraigie@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:eafvXYs7EHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
> Yes, you are right. People who post at the bottom are a real pain.
> Posting at the top is the majority preferred default worldwide.
>
> Warmest Felicitations,
>
> Brian

Felicity & Brian (and others):
>From http://bruce.pennypacker.org/nanaefaq.html
 " Do not post your answer at the top of the quoted posting. Most viewers
read from top to bottom and will miss the flow and context of the discussion
if they read your answer before they read the previous poster's question. If
you do add your comments to the very top of a quoted message, you will be
razzed as a "Top Poster" and you might be razzed as a Microsoft-centric
lemming since Microsoft products encourage non-standard top-posting."

See http://web.presby.edu/~nnqadmin/nnq/nquote.html in particular, Q9 which
recommends bottom posting for responses.

See http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html for the article "Why is
Bottom-posting better than Top-posting"

See http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html for another
article on the advantages of bottom posting.

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Top-posting_or_bottom-posting for an article
also recommending bottom posting as opposed to top posting.

http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost for an article on "Why should I
not top-post".

The list goes on and on. There are dozens more of similar articles, nearly
all of which recommend bottom posting for a variety of reasons. Admittedly,
bottom posters are in the minority. More's the pity. And unfortunately when
the subject is raised it sometimes takes on a religious fervor pitting the
top-posters vs. the bottom-posters.

To my mind a more important issue re newsgroup posting is the rather common
failure of writers to trim preceding posts to include only the relevant
material that the writer is responding to. Isn't it a misery to wade through
gobs and gobs of quoted prior posts that have little or no relevancy to that
which the current writer is responding to? And where the thread has
continued for some time it's nearly impossible to make out who said what,
since it's a rare event where the current poster makes an effort to ensure
some sort of orderly and rational chronology of the prior posts in the
thread.

And let's not talk of the posts that state something like "Thanks guys for
your help in finally getting my 250 GB HD to boot." with no other
information in this less-than-enlightening posting.
Art

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