Top posting is best

[Dave Hinz]

Right, and it allows people following up to _that_ response to put everything in the correct flow and context.

[Dave Hinz]

That, sometimes, is the fault of the person with the sig file. Most newsreaders (even Outhouse) will recognize "-- " on a line by itself as a sig delimiter. If someone just uses "--", then it's something that looks like, but is not, a legal sig delimiter.

[Dave Hinz]

Like I said. I don't understand why people go out of their way to read a thread they know they don't want to see, and then complain about it.

[Treetops]

kind ) posters do not snip, and never will.

OK so lets compromise and make it 50%. Still a lot of non-snippers forcing a lot of scrolling. So what's your magic solution for converting 50% of the world's posters to the art of snipping?

meat on the majority of posts (since bottom posts dominate), wading thru maybe 3 days worth of posts which our eyes, if not our brain, have now seen umteen times. What a waste of time and energy to say nothing of the wear and tear on arthritic fingers.

I agree. Me bad. Hopefully I fixed it.

theoretical but impractical plan and all start top posting.

Yeaaaa! Whats my prize? Let me help you with quoting Mortimer; he said something about saving the world's bandwidth, speeding up the internet, eliminating the worldwide shipment of spam, and mass education in snipping skills. Hope I got that right. You might check with him but he may be hard to reach. Last time I saw him he was on a horse chasing after some guy called Don Quixote looking for windmills.

Gee. Guess I'm part of the 50%. OTOH I just wasn't sure how much or where to snip. It"s so complicated: Should I trim or snip? What is a reasonable trim? Is it rude to snip somebodies signature? Is the flow and context still intact? Have I changed the meaning altogether? Should I leave the untrimmed part from the previous 4 posts there?

I'm already in trouble with the top posting police. I just didn't want to also get in trouble with the snip, eerrr trim, police too. So I wimped out and didn't snip.

Oh oh. That was only a joke!

[Dave Hinz]

"Hey, did you know that if you'd trim out some of that stuff we've all read over and over, and if you put your answers _after_ the question, that everything works better?" type messages.

Looks better, it's more like 90 now.

A "Gore/Lieberman" sticker, I think.

See, but if you had quoted him effectively, it'd be right up there,

7 or 8 lines up, above your "> Let me help".

Well, when there are people who say "Wow, what a mess, here, let me make it worse", ...

Apparently.

It depends. "Include enough context so people know who you're talking to and what you're talking about" is a good guideline that I've seen for a long time.

Never.

Not if you turn it upside-down.

If you have, they'll correct you.

Probably not. Anything more than two or three deep is rarely needed, unless there's a debate about a fine or subtle point of something rather deep.

I've never seen "lazily didn't bother to..." written that way, but whatever.

Yes, there's a lot of that going on in this sub-part of the discussion. Which is left 4-deep because context makes sense that way.

[jo4hn]

posting > On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:25:35 GMT, Unisaw A100

rules! > wrote: :-) >

j4 >>Dave H>>

[Ned]

I trim for and mostly top posting. I have a question for you "Are we still better off today when gasoline is now over $2.00 at the pump?"

[Unisaw A-100]

sigh...

UA100, who usually follows conformity but loves to watch panties twist when others don't...

[Dave Hinz]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:56:08 -0600, Unisaw A-100 wrote:

[Dave Hinz]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:58:50 -0600, Unisaw A-100 wrote:

[Unisaw A-100]

Should I be flattered?

UA100, who does like a panty twister here and there...

[Dave Hinz]

That was more of a "pot...kettle...black" kind of thing.