Re: top-posting?

>there is a long-established preference on Usenet for bottom posting and 
>thoughtful snipping.

Well, I have been posting on Usenet for many, many years and I have to 
disagree with you on top-posting.  Many prefer top-posting and on most 
groups it is quite common if not the most common practice.  People do have 
to be considerate and either incorporate the question at the beginning or 
put a little from it above, as I have done here.  I agree about "thoughtful 
snipping".

Top-posting does not mark one as a newbie but the use of insulting language 
like "jerks" to describe people who simply disagree with you does mark one 
as exactly that, IMHO.

mack
austin


"Janet Wilder" <kelliepoodle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:43e0f505$0$3497$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Mack McKinnon wrote:
> <snip>  What I usually do when posting is incorporate the
>> subject / question into my first sentence as I've done here.
> <snip>
>
> You are changing the thread's name. Not *all* newsreaders work the same 
> way.
>
> Whatever the excuses, there is a long-established preference on Usenet for 
> bottom posting and thoughtful snipping.  The inibility to bottom post 
> either marks one as a newbee or, IMHO, a jerk who believes they are above 
> the accepted standards and practices of the rest of the group.
>
> Janet
> -- 
> -----------
> Janet Wilder
> The Road Princess
> http://janetwilder.blogspot.com 


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