Please folks

Have some sympathy for those of us who fight tendonitis from doing too
much computer work while trying to get our boats back in the water.

Having to scroll down through one or two pages of stuff we've already
read on each and every message in a long thread gets really irksome.
It's expecially aggravating when all you find at the bottom is a one
line smart ass coment instead of something useful.

Did you know that, if you click the mouse, hold down the shift key and
scroll down, pressing "Delete" will make all that stuff disappear?
The minor inconvienience of occasionally having to go back up the
thread to figure out what the person meant is nothing compared to the
drudgery of scrolling down over, and over, and over.

Every once in a while some newsgroup nazi will come out screaming
about "Top Posting" but, the way these groups are used today, it makes
sense. If you must leave everything that came before, do it. The
reader can immediately read the smart ass comment at the top. If it
doesn't make sense, they can then skip down to find the context.

When the context is necessary or you want to make clear which point
you are responding to, cut and past just the "Pighead wrote:" and the
relevant point to the top and then respond.

I'm not trying to be a newsgroup nazi here myself. I would just like
to be able to read all your insightful and incredibly knowledgable
posting while preserving enough wrist function to be able to go out
and sand all the bottom paint on my 32 foot boat.

--

Roger Long




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  • Re: Got to laugh
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  • Re: Got to laugh
    ... >> The full context, should I wish to read it, is in the previous post. ... > be there, in order, top to bottom, for any of it to make sense. ... > Top posting gives the best of all worlds. ... > don't get forced to scroll "like a dummy" to the bottom of the message to ...
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  • Re: [OT] Top posting (was: CREATE & DELETE /MAILBOX)
    ... you perfectly know that 90% of the readers prefer top posting because ... You want to set the context BEFORE you read the answer. ... The issue isn't top posting, it is making sure people learn to include only ... If you include just a couple of lines, you do not need to "scroll down to see ...
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  • Re: Faded Old Fiberglass Boat - TRANSFORMED!
    ... > This was a real lesson in Humanity for me tonight. ... back in the days when I was in the used car business. ... Some members of this group will scorch you for posting "off topic", ... "personalities" if you think you want to post to rec boats. ...
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  • Re: Question re. Copper artifact Canadian Arctic former Re:CopperCasting In America (Trevelyan)
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