Re: Rocky Horror (was: The Science Fiction That Wasn't)

On 14 Mar 2006 15:46:02 -0800, "trike" <dougtricarico@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

The way the Google client works, is that I could only reply to the post
I am replying to, else, I might be actively replying to another post
entirely. I don't ordinarily pick and choose whereupon the tree I
might post (not to say I never have). I agree in principle, that posts
should directly be addressed beneath them for the stream of logic.

Nobody expects you to control where your posts appear in relation to
other posts. Top posting refers to where your comments appear with
respect to the quoted text in the post you are replying to. The
following sig demonstrates why many people prefer in-line (not
bottom!) posting.

A. Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion
Q. Why is top posting bad ?

This comes up every once in a while, mostly because Usenet protocol is
different from corporate practice. It kills efficiency to bottom post
in business, but Usenet is an asynchronous conversation that needs
either bottom or intertwined posting.

Right. And, in business, you're IME rarely either addressing a long
article point by point or giving it a thorough fisking. But you do
want a complete audit trail of the entire conversation. So you let
things accumulate from the bottom, insert your material at the top,
and if you need to quote, paste in a second copy, leaving the original
where it was. None of that last part is appropriate for Usenet,
however, thus the animus toward top-posting...

--Craig

--
Craig Richardson (crichard-tacoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
"Then I heard the whirring of the motorized snowmen, sound[ing] like the
death rattle of very small robot lizards, and I left the seasonal aisle"
-- James Lileks, "The Bleat", 2005/10/10
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