Re: Beatles' Hit Songs?


"Bill Kawalec" <billkawalec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "BB Leanie" <smokerdude66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Slip Kid" <G-2@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> Chimp wrote:
>>>> In my newsreader you read the first thread and the replies come down
>>>> from it in a tree structure, no context required. Do you not have the
>>>> same?
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>>> Yes, I have a string of some 50 - 100 posts (between the first ann final
>>> post). I'm usually most concerned with the post I'm replying to
>>> (reading?).
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>>>> I bet you had to scroll down to read this bit too - still, go
>>>> regulations! :-|
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>>> Yes, and anyone who is reading my response read both your words and
>>> mine...in sequence. Sorta like a book?
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>>> I do know one person who reads the end of a book first.
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>>> You may be correct. Usenet conventions may offer no utility...and 90?%
>>> of the people who follow that policy are wrong?
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>>> It's not as though you opened the door of an aircraft at 37,000 feet.
>>> We're all alive.
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>>> It's less a 'rule' than a convention?
>>> "a : Usage or custom especially in social matters
>>> b : A rule of conduct or behavior
>>> c : An established technique, practice, or device"
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>>> If it's a faulty policy? I'm surprised that few people chose deviate
>>> after a couple of decades.
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>>> Yeah, your way really has failed to catch on & I doubt it has much to do
>>> with my influence...or your's.
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>> Netiquette, for the most part, rightly or wrongly, has gone the way of
>> Emily Post.
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> What annoys me FAR more than top posting (obviously) is when people leave
> in an endless string of quoted messages just to add a one-liner at the
> bottom. IMO, one should do whatever is appropriate for a specific message.
> I have no problem with the one-liners being at the top...
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While I absolutely agree, your last two posts were basically one liners, but
instead of at the top or bottom your quip was buried smack in the middle.

Now THAT annoys me.


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