Re: responding to a post (net etiquette)
- From: "Bryan K" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:49:49 GMT
"minus200(DELETETHIS)" <"minus200(DELETETHIS)"@bellsouth.net> wrote in
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>i dont recall real Internet usage by the public in 1986
Usenet has been around since 1981. It was taught to me in a high school
computer programming class.
>- most of what was going on was direct dial up to mostly university
>computers (and some corporate computers)
And high school computers.
> From a bad memory, the 1st Internet providers started in the late 80's.
I have vitrually no knowledge of the history of Internet Service Providers.
> There was almost no Usenet usage until the early 90's.
A quick search of google shows over 40,000 usenet posts on their archives
from before 1990.
> I dont know in what group you were schooled - it sounds far different than
> what I learned.
I posted primarily in the San Francisco 49er group from '94 to about '99.
>From '91 to '93 (high school days), I posted mostly garbage that I'm not
proud of from school computers. I discovered the 49er group in '94, and
I've been a Usenet junkie ever sense. I wasn't a charter member of the 49er
group (I don't post there anymore...though I'm still a die hard 49er fan),
but I was close. It was the members of the 49er group that taught me why
top posting was wrong.
> Perhaps your groups did a lot of line by line discussion.
Which is the essense of usenet.
> If line by line responses were a big part- then posting below EACH comment
> would be the preferred method just as it is today. You see less and less
> of that method of responding and I am just as guilty as most by taking the
> easy road and ignoring etiquette. That aside responses above the quote
> are easier to read and are considered the most acceptable posting method.
You are mistaken on both accounts. Top posting isn't the most acceptable
posting method. It is an unacceptable posting method.
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