Re: etiquette (top-posting or bottom posting)

In article <1189966621.118818.24850@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"G.A.M." <x0Zero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sep 16, 1:01 pm, rober...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Walter Roberson)
wrote:
In article <fbmfg5$id...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

Jason <j_henderso...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Surely then that's another important question. Do the
majority of users access the topics through usenet or
through the web interface. If through the web interface
then it's my opinion (granted it doesn't count for much)
that top posting is sufficient since the previous posts are
easily identified.

Statistics time:

I downloaded all the comp.soft-sys.matlab postings that are
hanging around the news server I use; the oldest posting
still resident there dates back to May 3 2007, which predates
the new newsreader.

Total: 22520 postings
==============

old newsreader: 8873 postings 39.4%
new newsreader: 6471 postings 28.7%
direct mathworks internal: 192 postings 0.9%
--------------
15536 postings at mathworks 69.0%

me via Usenet: 985 postings 4.4%
others via google 2995 postings 13.3%
other Useneters: 3004 postings 13.3%
-------------
6984 postings via usenet 31.0%

Thus, the majority (more than 2/3) of the postings were made using
the Matlab web interface, and another 13.3% were from the google
graphical interface. Of the rest, 1 in 4 are from me.
--


Very interesting. Thanks for doing the stats. This seems to throw open
the whole question again.

No, it doesn't. CSSM is a usenet newsgroup. Period. The fact that
most users access it via a web interface does not absolve them from
conforming to usenet standards and that means interleaving and/or bottom
posting.

Interleaving and bottom posting hurts no one. Top posting hurts
traditional usenet users. Please just stick to the standard.

--
Doug Schwarz
dmschwarz&ieee,org
Make obvious changes to get real email address.
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