OT: Buying a car from dealership

I found the listing in the trash and it wasn't made by a programl or even a system I dealt with, so the odds are.... well, no one girl could have put 2 and 2 together, I dont' think. They probably didn't even know what agencies had listings of them. If the listing had included pictures and if some were good looking, and they probably were, I probably would have tried somehow.

Center posted as your post was.

I've been known to complete stop, and see if the other person notices. One time on bicycle, I could not keep up with the fellow with me. We were both teenagers. Finally, about four blocks from home, I pulled over and stopped. I rested a while, and head home. Asked him later about that, if he'd noticed me missing, and would he have come back. No, he'd already put his bike in the garage and went in to the house. That pretty much describes his level of interest in our friendship.

I've had that happen with vehicles, also. I tend to drive carefully, and people take off and leave me behind. One such time was when I was driving the vehicle with the trailer, we were moving a piano. The other driver left me behind in a housing development. I ended up making some phone calls, finally found out where he went, and told him to return to where I was. I ought have turned and gone home.

Give it a bloody rest, will you???? If you've got nothing worth saying, just shut up.

While it's true, I'm no longer on topic for car dealership, I'm on topic for the comment, and the reply. And it was worth saying.

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You are still on your "anti-center-posting" hobbyhorse.

The horse is not only dead and buried., but thoroughly composted by now. Inline posting is now a standard and accepted method of posting on newsnet and makes it MUCH easier to follow a thread.

So like I said, give it a rest

As I understand it, inline posting means two or more comments. When one posts a single comment (with untrimmed trailing text), I call that center posting. Center posting leaves the reader looking for the second comment (which isn't there) and just leaves the reader upset about having his or her time wasted, scanning for a second reply which isn't there. I think center posting is rude, and a waste of others time. Rather inconsiderate.

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It is "inline posting" when the reply immediately follows the point being replied to. Trimming trailing text may or may not be adviseable, depending on what the following text (or as you call it, trailing text) has to say that is pertinent. Without context, the reply may not make any sense, and a "real news reader" when set up for efficiency does not necessarilly show the previous full post that is being replied to. Sometimes the "whole thread" is important for context - sometimes it is not.

If not required for context, clipping is good ettiquette. - but so is trimming "leading text" when you bottom post, and trimming "leading text" when top posting.

Complaining about not trimming is often definitely a case of ' pot - kettle - black". i

A person who normally trims text might leave excess text so others can see what is the problem.

And that's why I leave text that follows my last reply. So people reading my reply will know whether the previous poster had already taken in to account what I said.

In addition, I don't snip what the previous poster wrote to show respect for his words, and thirdly, because when people snip what I wrote, they often do it to distort what I wrote or to give a reply that makes no sense.

In-line posting does not require 2** sections of comment. Like Clare said, it only requires that a response follow directly after the comment being responded to. And that's what makes it easier to understand than either bottom or top posting. **One doesnt' know until he reads further if he'll have more comments to make.