Re: Poor behaviour on the air reported

I will try to keep the in mind... only try though... Seeing as you put it so
nicely
"Binki" <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> m3kxb wrote:
> > stereotyping I see... ohh well
>
>
> Top-posting makes posts incomprehensible. Firstly: In normal
> conversations, one does not answer to something that has not yet been
> said. So it is unclear to reply to the top, whilst the original message
> is at the bottom. Secondly: In western society a book is normally read
> from top to bottom. Top-posting forces one to stray from this
> convention: Reading some at the top, skipping to the bottom to read the
> question, and going back to the top to continue. This annoyance
> increases even more than linear with the number of top-posts in the
> message. If someone replies to a thread and you forgot what the thread
> was all about, or that thread was incomplete for some reasons, it will
> be quite tiresome to rapidly understand what the thread was all about,
> due to bad posting and irrelevant text which has not been removed.
>
> Please stop it !!
>
> Binki


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