Re: Tbs vs. 50-move rule

I've read three of them and I remain unconvinced. The purpose of
communication is to impart information clearly, with minimal speed bumps.
Bottom posting is a huge speed bump for me in threads I've been following.
For threads I have not followed, I prefer to read each post in order, giving
preference to those that have been top posted. There is nothing more
irritating (in newsgroup reading, that is) than to have to take my hands off
keyboard and scroll down four screens to read a silly, one-line response.

One of the posts you quote was posted in 2001. I have a feeling it's even
older than that because the writer refers to what are in his view the
unwashed masses. Sounds like silliness from around a decade earlier, when
geeks who still ruled the net were crapping in their pants about Aunt Tilly
getting an email account. Thank goodness that is no longer true.

I think you would be surprised to learn that most usenet posters prefer top
posting, especially when the correspondent clips or edits the original post.

"Guy Macon" <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote

> Your previous post is strong evidence that you have *not*
> bothered to read the case for bottom posting. If you had,
> you wouldn't have presented arguments that have already been
> refuted. I challenge you to actually read even one of the
> following webpages and to give a calm, reasoned explanation
> as to what you find wrong with the arguments presented.
>
> Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
> http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html
>
> How do I quote correctly in usenet?
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html
>
> Common Mistakes in Usenet Postings and How to Avoid Them
> http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/mail-news-errors.html#quoting
>
> Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
>
> Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>
> +What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
> http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html
>
> BTW, injecting personal insults into the discussion does not
> strengthen your case. Quite the contrary, as a matter of fact.
> When someone resorts to personal attacks, it is almost always
> because they know that they are losing an argument. It does,
> however, add evidence to my theory that all top-posters are
> jerks who never post anything worth reading.
>
>


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