Re: Why reply at the bottom of posts?

Leythos

I use OE and keep posts for no longer than 5 days in the public groups.. I
flag all that I answer or where I am interested in how something is answered
by another.. read and unread are all showing.. I have found that posts are
rarely active for more than 5 days, and many do not last even close to
that.. so I don't really care if posts are dropped in other systems.. I
would not know about it anyway because of my modus operandii here.. :-)

Quote: Look at it like reading a page of a book, or like chapters in a
book, you don't start at the end and read backwards. <end>

You are absolutely right in the above, but then again, I don't join a book
in the middle and hope that there is enough info to save me having to start
at the very beginning..


--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User


"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1d6a69ae25bda66d989bbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <Oa$qNuZoFHA.1048@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> mike.hall.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> Detlev
>>
>> The answer does follow the question when top posting, assuming that one
>> has
>> read the previous post..
>
> And therein lies the problem - if you understand usenet you would know
> that posts (articles) expire at different times on different servers.
>
> So, as an example - a person posts a problem on Jan 1, 2005. They get no
> responses and in July 2005 a googler replies without including any of
> the post, so, now we have a reply with no understanding of what the
> reply is about. Same is true for top posting, you reply in July 2005,
> but the original article has expired on all the servers except google
> (which most people don't use) and you have to page down to see what the
> problem was then page up to read the response because it's out of order.
>
> Look at it like reading a page of a book, or like chapters in a book,
> you don't start at the end and read backwards.
>
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