The Perils of Working For Friends

[Bob Martin]

I think you are a little confused - every country in Europe, with the exception of the UK, drives on the right.

[Swingman]

My tendency is to want to top post, I guess from my old BBS/Fido days.

I bottom post because "when in Rome..".

That said, IMO top posters are infinitely preferable to bottom posters who are just too damn lazy to cut and edit ... including those who can't seem to take out the !#$)*T# message id information.

There is little worse than scrolling down though a couple hundred lines of quoted text to find a "me too".

[CW]

True and it would be a lot easier to convince people to top post than to teach them how to trim correctly and remember to do it. It will never change, if someone can fu_k it up, they will.

[LRod]

How about, "I got up at 6 AM in the morning."?

[LRod]

[snip]

Thank you!!! That is the sum and substance of my whole campaign against bottom posting--the inconsiderate bottom posters.

Right.

[alexy]

But don't get me started on 12:00 a.m and 12:00 p.m.

[Tim Taylor]

[alexy]

But if you had answered as above, including snipping stuff to which you weren't replying, they'd sure know.

Good point and well illustrated.

[B A R R Y]

As in Macs, recumbent bicycles, etc...

[CW]

I do. Learn to clip and keep top posting and you'll have it.

[Larry Blanchard]

Agreed. But then I think that people who are too lazy or too uninterested to cut and edit should be killfiled :-).

[Larry Blanchard]

Or Neadertals vs Normites :-).

But I bet "Mark & Juanita" agree with me on at least one political issue as well - the 2nd amendment :-).

[Jim Northey]

[trek fan]

Never Never Never Ever again I help a so called freind take off his roof resheet it and put on new roof did not charge him a dime just wanted some help from him when I put siding on my house . I got a big no from him when the time came to help me to bad for him were he worked at my cousion was his boss i got him fired

[Mark & Juanita]

Given the way you phrased that, I suspect you are right.

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[Mark & Juanita]

Yeah, but how many of *us* really give a rip about what 10,000 out of 1 billion Chinese think about anything. ;-)

+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

[Puckdropper]

Dave Hall wrote in news: [e-mail]:

If the cursor's at the top, scroll down and trim until you get to where you want to reply. It keeps messages shorter and in context, which is what the whole debate is all about.

My newsreader (Xnews) tries to prevent really excessive quoted text, but it doesn't stop me from doing it if I want to.

Puckdropper

[CW]

If the curser is at the top, it's where it's supposed to be. Type your message, then, before sending, scroll down and snip the as appropriate.

[Mike]

exception of the UK,

Wrong. You missed out Ireland, Malta and Cyprus, and if I were being pedantic Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney.

There is also one street in central London where traffic drives on the right - Savoy Court

[TOM MOORE]

I think I would copy all that this group has written here and send it to them first. Then see what they do or say :)) Some friends huh?? Tom