Re: Why reply at the bottom of posts?

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:48:15 -0700, "ITinerant" <rsvp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>I'm just curious as to why so many replies are under the original post
>instead of at the top?

I've never understood why the whole messages being replied to is
brought forward as a quote. I think that is laziness whether posting
at the top or bottom.

I think the more intelligent way is to snip out the specific part(s)
one is replying to and post a specific reply to each specific part.

>Personally I find this annoying to have to scroll to the bottom to see the
>latest reply.

I find it even more annoying where people bring forward a quote
containing multi levels of quotes going back 10 or more messages and
then post a one sentence reply to it.... LAZY! or... they never
learned what copy&paste is or what the shortcut ctrl-c and ctrl-v is
used for.

>This isn't meant to be a mean spirited question.

And it wasn't taken as such, or wasn't by me at least....

Regards,
Ed

>Quote
>>Quote of Quote
>>>Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>>>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote
>>>>>>>>>>Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote of Quote

See how utterly Stupid it is?
.

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