Re: Another Newbie Question - Be nice Lumpy :-)

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:29:44 -0500, IncubusD <incubusd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:23:26 -0700, Kurt <labolide@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <dsrtt3p4jc14n7lv3a90nvptsfukoccf0j@xxxxxxx>,
TyMeDwn1st <TyMeDwn1st@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:31:48 -0700 (PDT), Foobar <bamberbert@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Also, are you writing off ebay as a business expense?


Stop the damned top-posting!

That was on the list of things he had to discuss with his accountant.

I'm not really sure what "top-posting" is, so please let me know so I
can avoid offending anyone... if I have done something to personally
offend you, I do apologize since I am not here to argue or afront, I
am just looking for some advice from folks more experienced than I.

-Incubus

Not a personal affront, just an overall rudeness that runs counter to the
standard for this and most other newsgroups and makes it harder to read
your posts (I generally just kill-file people who top-post).


Smith: Oh! Now it makes sense to me. Okay! No more top-posting for me!

Jones: It's annoying because it reverses the normal order of conversation.
In fact, many people ignore top-posted articles.

Smith: What's so wrong with that?

Jones: That's posting your response *before* the article you're quoting.

Smith: People keep bugging me about "top-posting." What does that mean?

A: Top posters.

Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?

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Buncha links with more info. Caveat: haven't checked them lately to see
if they all work.


Netiquette: "When thou enter a city, abide by its customs."
http://www.glowworms.com/~vez/neti.html

How To Followup A Post On Netnews Properly
http://www.star-one.org.uk/computer/format.htm

Usenet 101: How to properly format a Usenet post
http://mysite.verizon.net/~mr_fish/Usenet101.html

How do I quote correctly in usenet?
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

Posting help for newbies
http://www.windfalls.net/ukrm/postinghelp.html

Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Zen and the art of the internet (usenet section)
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html

The seven don'ts of Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html

Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

+What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quotetext.html

The advantages of usenet's quoting conventions
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html

Rules for posting to Usenet
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/

Why you shouldn't ask for E-mail responses on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/mail-responses.html

Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings (from news.newusers.questions)
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html

Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes with this automated fix!
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

For the Engineer/Programmer: News related RFCs and Drafts
(esp. RFC 1855, section 3)
http://www.tin.org/docs.html

From <hock><spit!> microsoft:
"When including text from a previous message in the thread,
trim it down to include only text pertinent to your response.
Your response should appear below the quoted information."
- http://www.jsiinc.com/newsgroup_document.htm



--
Ty
Who is mostly just a
slightly skewed
Donna Reed

War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes
think they are going to profit from it.
~~ George Orwell
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