Re: Signature question

From: Honus (honus1_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 07/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:52:53 GMT

"Ron Sommer" <rsommer@nospam.ktis.net> wrote in message
news:us7QM$YaEHA.2408@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

<snip>

> Do you realize how much scrolling it would take to read a lot of replies?

That's what snipping is all about. Why waste bandwidth, or time? Just
<snip>.

> There is no key combination that will take you to the reply.

That's what snipping is all about. Why would you need a keystroke to take
you to the relevant part of the message if people snip the no longer
relevant portions of the text? It's simple, considerate and makes for easy
to read (and follow) threads. But I'm here to convert anyone. I just had a
simple question.

> If a question has several replies, do you need to see the original message
> again?

That's what snipping is all about. ;)

Seriously, I'm from the old school of Usenet. That's probably pretty obvious
from the way I post. Where I come from, bottom posting is just flat-out
evil. The way I post, as shown here, it's a lot easier to follow multiple
conversations in several newsgroups at a time. Top posting may make things
simple for the occasional user, but for dealing with any volume I've found
that it just isn't effective. That's also, I daresay, why bottom posting is
(or always has been) considered proper netiquette.

YMMV.

I never had this problem with Netscape. Of course, I had a lot of other
problems instead. <gbg> 

-- 
"Man is a Religious Animal.  Man is the only Religious Animal.  He is
the only animal that has the True Religion -- several of them. He is the
only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his
theology isn't straight."
                                   Mark Twain

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