Anyone think Screwfix have gone to the wall??

[:::Jerry::::]

Look at his (?) user name and then at his email addy, says it all really....

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Q Why is it always so easy to spot newbies to Usenet?

A A fancy name and a yahoo address...

Perhaps you should spend more time on pondering why things are done as they are here before jumping in with your 'acid wit'.

[The Question Asker]

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

How very selfish and anti-social you are. Still it proves the point that "upside downers" seldom have anything worthwhile to contribute.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

All the more reason to take guidance from those with more experience, then? After all, that seems to be your purpose for being here?

[The Question Asker]

[Seri]

Asker" ever asks a question that one of the people he so readily insulted knows the answer to then it's doubtful he'll receive much assistance.

Myself personally I've merely set him to ignore so I no longer see any of his posts.

My 2 cents

Seri

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Well, I'm subscribed to 20 including a couple of non UK ones, and a few mail lists as well. And bottom posting is the convention on all. Thing is you *have to* if interweaving a reply - point by point - so it makes no sense to change how you do it for ones where you're not.

[:::Jerry::::]

Mainly ones dealing with MS products no doubt....

'nough said :~(

[:::Jerry::::]

That is assuming that newbies bother to read up on 'Netiquette', seeing that most people don't bother with Etiquette anymore what chance Netiquette...

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

I would have to disagree. There are obviously groups who are full of the clueless, where more are upside down than average, but no-one with an ounce of common sense could suggest it is a policy except in some alt.anarchy type group.

[Rob Morley]

I believe it's accepted practice in some Microsoft groups ...

[Huge]

QED.

[Andy Hall]

That says it all :-)

[raden]

In message , ":::Jerry::::" writes

But then they shouldn't whinge when jumped on

[:::Jerry::::]

You know that, I know that, most on this group know that, but the planks who whinge when jumped on don't think they are doing wrong and some don't care if they are !

[The Question Asker]

It was only meant to be a post on how Screwfix are doing, oh and if anyones interested a £800 order took over a week to arrive!!

[Mike]

Try many of the crafts or textiles groups. Also some of the social groups. In these one isn't looking for a string of debate but simple comment to a question.

Personally I'd all prefer we ALL use Lotus Notes then one could a) customise the display to suit our own tastes. b) reduce bandwidth to just the new comment

[Mike]

Ah, that's the advantage of bottom-posting - long winded discussions that people can still follow. With top posting the thread would have died off ages ago :-)

[Andy Luckman (AJL Electronics)]

QED :-)