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Pat P wrote:
Yes - I prefer top-posting anyway! It`s not set in stone. It`s also far better to killfile someone if that`s what you want, rather than announce the fact! What I find far more annoying than top-posting is the lack of editing. I`m sure that not are many of us are exactly trembling in our shoes at the thought of bringing down the wrath of folk such as MargW on our heads - in fact I suspect that everyone would be profoundly UNimpressed! ;-). Was that a "Plonk" I heard (or some such childish expression). Whoop-de-doo!

Pat

"MargW" <mwhittle@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47463b80$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

so - "BettyC" - plonk!
MargW
Well, Mirjam, while I don't claim to speak for everyone in the group (and obviously I don't speak for you), I think I have a reasonable feel for the way this group functions. I've been reading and posting to this group since around 1995.

Every usenet newsgroup (of which r.c.t.n. is one) has its own conventions and ways of doing things. Every so often someone comes along who is not familiar with the conventions of the group. Although there is no law forbidding someone from posting contrary to the usual methods of the group, it is also a guaranteed method of bringing the general wrath of that same group on their heads.



Pat:

As I said in my message, r.c.t.n. doesn't worry a lot about top postings. I simply made a point that in some newsgroups it is considered bad manners, and gave the reason. I also said that I don't speak for everyone, although from the responses so far, I seem to have at least captured the feelings of a large part of the group.

I top post in reply to e-mails since I want to answer the e-mailer's question, and they know what they've asked. In a newsgroup where there are hundreds of posters, it's often difficult to figure out what point a poster is replying to if they top post. It's easier to read, and understand if you put your reply at the bottom, and/or interleave it with the original message.

I normally don't announce a kill-file, I simply do it. In this case, I wanted the poster (Betty C.) to understand why. No wrath, just a reason.

You don't have to be impressed with me, any more than I have to be impressed with you.

MargW

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