Re: Top posting

Default User filted:
>
>Bob Cunningham wrote:
>>
>> Your phrase "this post" is interesting. I'm composing this
>> posting to comment on your posting. But when you said "this
>> post", it's hard to believe you meant the one you were
>> composing, because if it were you wouldn't have had to ask
>> what the point of it was.
>
>It's usenet standard to compose replies to the quoted material. As such
>"this post" to refer to the prior in the article tree is also standard.
>If you have trouble understanding that, that's your problem. I refuse
>to reword, you knew perfectly well what was meant and are merely
>evading the question through language-lawyer tactics.
>
>Answer or be damned.

Bob doesn't believe in trees, preferring to change the subject line at frequent
intervals, with the result that many newsreaders lose all sense of where the
message being responded to might be....

I'm agnostic on the subject of trees myself, on the grounds that not everyone
will see every message in a highly dendritic thead, particularly when people
start adding and subtracting groups....r

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