Re: responding to a post (net etiquette)
- From: "Bryan K" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 00:41:42 GMT
"minus200(DELETETHIS)" <"minus200(DELETETHIS)"@bellsouth.net> wrote in
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>I recall a discussion here about where to respond to a post - above the
>quote or below the quote. I did not read the results or even a lot of the
>threads. I have been on newsgroups for a "pretty good while" (redneck talk)
>This seemed to have been settled before RGP was an independent group.
Yep. It has been widely accepted usent etiquette to NEVER top post for well
over 20 years now. I haven't been on Usenet that long. My first ever
Usenet post came some time around 1991. It took me about a dozen posts
before the regulars "schooled" me on the incorrect way to use usenet.
>Once you read the original post why would you want to scroll thur the same
>material just to get to the new material.
Attribution. Most news servers have problems with retention (since I
splurged on an Easynews subscription, that problem has gone away). The
result of that is that many posts never make it to your newsreader. They
get lost somewhere in cyberspace, and you never get to see them. If
everyone top posted, then no one would know to whom the new topics were
responding. The end result would be mass anarchy in those threads where a
post or two are missing.
Furthermore, by top posting, you are ruining a perfectly good opportunity to
debate a topic point by point. Having to use an extra sentence here or
there to explain what a person is responding to is a waste of bandwidth when
that person could just attribute properly and end the problem. Furthermore,
by using proper attribution, one can get the direct context of what the OP
was trying to convey without the responder rewriting the passage and getting
the context wrong.
> This is not a big issue in a 100 post a month newsgroup where are rarely
> more than 2 or three responses to a post.
Yes it is.
> However, in a 1500+ post a day group where 100 responses (see Howard
> Beale) are not all that uncommon it surely makes since to post ABOVE the
> quote.
About 90% of the usenet world disagrees with you.
> This works even in the sub-threads. I have gotten very tired of scrolling
> down 100 lines to read a one or two line response. Think about it folks -
> if it makes sense -give it a try
It doesn't make sense. I get tired of having to scroll through 100 lines of
text just to see what you are responding to.
If you don't properly attribute, chances are good that I"m going to ignore
your post.
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