I didn't cross-post, I posted to uk.d-i-y. I don't cross-post, and to my recollection have never done so. I was a newbie when there was no such definition as a newbie, 'cos everyone was a newbie. Cross-posting was frowned upon right from the start.
Bottom or top posting isn't a standard, it's a guideline. There are certainly plenty guidelines which suggest bottom-posting, but I think they're crap.
What was your posting ID in 1991, then??
You may wish to disobey the standard, but if you do, you'll never stop getting told to read the newbie FAQs!
Christian.
Depends who you consider an arbitrary bunch. Who _do_ you consider the arbitrary bunch in this case?
Not true. A word-processor will let you write a badly-formatted letter. A drill will let you drill your eye out. Applications are just tools.
The fact that a lot of people do it doesn't make it correct. Your argument is full of logical flaws.
Perhaps, if you didn't use outdated, non-standards compliant news-reading software, you wouldn't make life difficult for yourself by being complelled to use the scroll wheel and for others by top-posting. One thing that I have learnt since reading this group is that you have to have the right tool for the job.
Antony
Anyone who writes "standards" without the authority to do so
The fact that someone takes it upon themself/ves to write a "standard" doesn't make it correct either
Couldn't agree more. But sometimes it's worth doing a bodge if it's quick, and a one line top post might well be such a bodge but if it does the job then so what.
I don't have to justify myself to you or anyone. I can't even remember all the id's I've used, and even if I did, I couldn't be bothered replying with it. It might have been the same as this. I don't know and I don't care. You obviously don't believe me. I don't care about that either.
I'm bored with this now.
Bye, then. Off.
Hi Guys
Thanks for all the info on tiling.
Its a lot of extra work but the guy about to do my kitchen (its tiled right up to the ceiling on 3 walls!) much prefers to remove the old first.
While we werent on the subject...at the risk of going O.T...
Ive never understood why so many object to cross-posting. I can understand it when its abused by spammer trolls to spread their rubbish everywhere but when its from legitimate users posting to relevant groups wheres the harm? And if it were so objectionable why is it then possible to do it. (I realise that some groups reject crossposted messages)
Thanks for your views...
Rob
It's not objectionable in the least when used legitimately, as you say. Multi-posting (the same article to several different NGs individually) *is*.
Just to clarify, I have no problem with moderate cross-posting either. I just had a brain fart when writing top-posting.
Christian.
Just curious...but why? It's not as if we have the server disk space issues we had
20 years ago when Usenet first got going.
If you have a reasonably intelligent newsreader it only shows you the message once. And if you reply your reply finds its way back to all the groups the original was cross-posted to (which is not always appreciated in the case of thread drift!)
Perhaps you will hear lots of:
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