Top posting...
John P. Davoust
active in roughly 12 newsgroups and this is the only one I have ever seen
where it has been a problem... Is it due to the mentality of one not being
able to process information in the proper timeline?
Typically when someone is involved in and following a newsgroup they prefer
not to scroll through the same words, sentences and paragraphs repeatedly,
post after post to find the new and additional comment... Honestly this is
the first place I have ever been where it seems to be an issue...
Stuart Millington
<jdav...@mminternet.com> wrote:
>What is this hatred a few of you have for top posting?
A: No.
Q: Does it make sense to post the answer before the question?
;)
Austin Shackles
On or around Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:24:31 -0700, "John P. Davoust"
<jdav...@mminternet.com> enlightened us thusly:
>What is this hatred a few of you have for top posting? Currently I am
>active in roughly 12 newsgroups and this is the only one I have ever seen
>where it has been a problem... Is it due to the mentality of one not being
>able to process information in the proper timeline?
I refer you to my earlier post on the subject, with examples.
it gets to be difficult, in a thread where several comments from several
people are involved, to see what you're replying to.
also, it's conventional to have questions before answers, not the other way
about.
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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
Soon shall thy arm, unconquered steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or
drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear the
flying chariot through the field of air.- Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
John P. Davoust
own... read em all 100 times if ya'd like, over and over and over....
;-) backatcha
"Stuart Millington" <ne...@dsv1.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Q: Does it make sense to post the answer before the question?
> A: No.
> ;)
hugh emerson
<jdav...@mminternet.com> writes
>Typically when someone is involved in and following a newsgroup they prefer
>not to scroll through the same words, sentences and paragraphs repeatedly,
>post after post to find the new and additional comment... Honestly this is
>the first place I have ever been where it seems to be an issue...
>
Unless you have an inordinately large capacity to remember every
posting you have read, with a top posted reply you inevitably read the
answer first, then have to read the rest of the posting anyway in order
to place the answer in the correct context.
The associated topic is of course snipping, a practice which avoids the
need to re-read lots of words, sentences and paragraphs which are
irrelevant to the comment being made.
I suspect that the majority who prefer bottom posting are of a
technical/scientific nature who like things in a logical order - and
that includes me!!
--
Hugh E
hu...@raefell.demon.co.uk
Craigix
Anyway - most websites top post too - including BBCnews :)
hugh emerson
<cr...@fredwest.co.uk> writes
>Yeah, i'm with you on this one. Then again i'm laid back about everything.
>Anyway - most websites top post too - including BBCnews :)
>
find out.
>"John P. Davoust" wrote:
>
>> What is this hatred a few of you have for top posting? Currently I am
>> active in roughly 12 newsgroups and this is the only one I have ever seen
>> where it has been a problem... Is it due to the mentality of one not being
>> able to process information in the proper timeline?
>>
>> Typically when someone is involved in and following a newsgroup they prefer
>> not to scroll through the same words, sentences and paragraphs repeatedly,
>> post after post to find the new and additional comment... Honestly this is
>> the first place I have ever been where it seems to be an issue...
>
Oh now I see. Back to the top to read what the comment was 'cos not
having a very good short term memory I've forgotten.
--
Hugh E
hu...@raefell.demon.co.uk
Murphwiz
"John P. Davoust" <jdav...@mminternet.com> wrote in message
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> What is this hatred a few of you have for top posting?
Tend to agree.... but most bottom posters seem to be completely unable to
correctly snip... far worse imho...
Austin Shackles
<nut...@btinternet.comNOSPAM> enlightened us thusly:
>
>... but most bottom posters seem to be completely unable to
>correctly snip... far worse imho...
when it comes down to it, I think you'll find that a large number of usenet
users are incapable of proper snipping, 's just that with top-posters you
don't notice.
personally, I don't like it - I read quite a lot of news, and I at least
can't remember every line of discussion which is going on - hence, when
someone replies, I like to have the bit they're replying to immediately
above so that I can refer to it. top-posting often fails to achieve this,
especially in a group where it's mostly not done. it also flies in the face
of the normal "question - answer" order of communication.
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Austin Shackles. www.ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk my opinions are just that
"Would to God that we might spend a single day really well!"
Thomas Ą Kempis (1380 - 1471) Imitation of Christ, I.xxiii.
~WCP~ [[ R*I*P ]]
"Austin Shackles" <aus...@ddol-las.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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hugh emerson
<wcp...@hotmail.com> writes
>I fear change....
>
Change is not synonymous with improvement.
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Hugh E
hu...@raefell.demon.co.uk