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Darlene L. Ainsworth

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Dec 21, 2001, 5:26:59 PM12/21/01
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Can anyone tell me how to change the settings on
this so that quoted material is above my reply for
usenet postings?

I'm using Outlook Express 5.0.

Thanks in Advance!

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David Candy

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Dec 21, 2001, 5:47:09 PM12/21/01
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You can't. Here isn't usenet so you don't have to worry about it. And I for one won't read your posts unless they're at the top.

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"Darlene L. Ainsworth" <darle...@home.com> wrote in message news:TGOU7.2727$Yj6.5...@news2.nash1.tn.home.com...

Steve Cochran

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Dec 21, 2001, 5:59:35 PM12/21/01
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All you can do is use CTRL-END to immediately move to the bottom of the
message.

steve

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Darlene L. Ainsworth

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Dec 21, 2001, 9:34:19 PM12/21/01
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Thank you most kindly. I'll quit trying to figure it out!

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Adam Bailey

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Dec 22, 2001, 2:10:30 PM12/22/01
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Darlene L. Ainsworth <darle...@home.com> wrote:

> Thank you most kindly. I'll quit trying to figure it out!

No, please don't quit. If you have any intention of posting to Usenet,
top-posting is heavily frowned upon for very good reasons.

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John Clifford Hole

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Dec 22, 2001, 4:32:33 PM12/22/01
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Adam,

Could you post these 'very good reasons' - please - as I can't think of a
single one let alone several.

There are quite a few newsgroups,that I visit,where I end up doing a
CTRL+A/CTRL+Q,instead of carrying on reading the posts,because I get so
fed-up with having to scroll down,through each post,to find new input only
to find one or two lines,of new text,which I could have read in seconds if
it had been at the top of the posts.

John Clifford Hole [MVP] of Enfield Middlesex

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Mike Rabideau

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Dec 22, 2001, 5:50:03 PM12/22/01
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"Adam Bailey" <ad...@lull.org> wrote in message
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> Darlene L. Ainsworth <darle...@home.com> wrote:
>
> > Thank you most kindly. I'll quit trying to figure it out!
>
> No, please don't quit. If you have any intention of posting to Usenet,
> top-posting is heavily frowned upon for very good reasons.
>

Bingo. Microshaft, in Gate's infinite wisdom, provides no control over the
default behavior of OE. An option for when it gets aggravating having to
manually move to the bottom of a post is to use another news reader. The
reader in Netscape defaulted the replies to the bottom of the post (don't
know about the newer versions). Not all newsgroup charters specify where to
locate the reply, but many moderated groups do--and they want the replies to
follow the original post.

Mike
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Adam Bailey

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Dec 22, 2001, 10:31:31 PM12/22/01
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In article <#TNCDnziBHA.2556@tkmsftngp03>, John Clifford Hole

<john....@btinternet.com> wrote:
> "Adam Bailey" <ad...@lull.org> wrote in message
> news:221220011310307607%ad...@lull.org...
>
> > No, please don't quit. If you have any intention of posting to
> > Usenet, top-posting is heavily frowned upon for very good reasons.
>
> Could you post these 'very good reasons' - please - as I can't think
> of a single one let alone several.

There are many, actually. For a variety of opinions, see:

http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/nquote.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
http://fmf.fwn.rug.nl/~anton/topposting.html
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
http://members.home.net/krobb7/quoting.html
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html#SEC51
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Top-posting_or_bottom-posting

> There are quite a few newsgroups,that I visit,where I end up doing a
> CTRL+A/CTRL+Q,instead of carrying on reading the posts,because I get
> so fed-up with having to scroll down,through each post,to find new
> input only to find one or two lines,of new text,which I could have
> read in seconds if it had been at the top of the posts.

Perhaps you should use a newsreader capable of easily collapsing quoted
text. :)

Furthermore, it is generally considered poor etiquette to quote an
entire screen's worth of text and add one or two lines of new text at
the bottom. Just because some people bottom-post poorly doesn't mean
bottom-posting itself is a bad idea.

David Candy

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Dec 22, 2001, 11:34:21 PM12/22/01
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Scum

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David Guess

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Dec 23, 2001, 4:06:37 AM12/23/01
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Hey, if you people want to pi$$ in each other Cherrios, take it elsewhere
how 'bout it. It's been awful peaceful in the OE groups as of late. Only one
has been a regular poster as of late so give it a rest, nobody really cares
what you or anybody else thinks of which posting method. People use what
they feel comfortable with and reguardless of what the diehard's think
everyone should do, Usenet is not falling down.

If you really want to gripe about something, why not take up the real
wasteland, the binaries newsgroups. There's more crap in them that there
ever will be of top, middle or bottom posters and you people think that
posting methods are the worse things in the world. If that don't suit you,
why not take up the hunt for other worse things in the world, gee, you don't
think they might be a bit more important?????

So troll on elsewhere how 'bout it?

dg

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David Candy

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Dec 23, 2001, 4:11:36 AM12/23/01
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Well let me see you little prick. I answered 2408 questions in these NG since 1/10/01 so I think I have a right to an opinion about little pedophiles like you forcing me to wheel tens of thousands of times.

Get a dog up ya.

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David Candy

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Dec 23, 2001, 4:18:37 AM12/23/01
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Your name seems wierd.

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David Candy

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Dec 23, 2001, 4:33:08 AM12/23/01
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Are we breaching NG rules by pretending we're someone we're not.

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David Candy

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Dec 23, 2001, 10:16:42 PM12/23/01
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I answered 2408 questions in these NG since 1/10/01 so I think I have a right to an opinion about little nazi's like you forcing me to wheel tens of thousands of times.

Get a dog up ya.

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"David Guess" <ma...@mindspring.com> wrote in message news:uiNPCF5iBHA.1684@tkmsftngp03...

David Guess

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Dec 24, 2001, 12:49:24 AM12/24/01
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Ahh, then you've got a long way to go to catch me in the number of replies
only

Since you invoke Godwin's Law, you must now quit.

Grow up and act like a human with some sort of sense.

dg

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David Candy

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Dec 24, 2001, 12:53:52 AM12/24/01
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Get f*cked scum

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David Candy

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Dec 24, 2001, 1:02:23 AM12/24/01
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660 for you scum.

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Carl Hatchell

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Dec 24, 2001, 1:53:37 AM12/24/01
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You're way out of line Candy. Cool Down.

Carl Hatchell.

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Steve Cochran

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Dec 27, 2001, 8:23:26 AM12/27/01
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That's enough. You can stop now.

steve


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Adam Bailey

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Dec 27, 2001, 12:33:54 PM12/27/01
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In article <mvgm2usenb3b8fnoe...@4ax.com>, Nige
<ndmN...@mail.com> wrote:

> In microsoft.public.win98.internet.outlookexpress, David Candy wrote:
>
> > You can't. Here isn't usenet so you don't have to worry about it.
>

> If this isn't usenet, then what is it?

microsoft.* newsgroups are not technically part of Usenet. By its
strictest definition, Usenet is the big eight hierarchies and no
others.

In common practice, however, the term has been expanded to mean any
groups which are propagated.

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