Your memory problems are none of my concern.




"Jack" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:04:33 -0400, "Mark S. Holden"
wrote:

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"Jack" wrote in message
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If people snipped properly, that wouldn't be a problem.

Snipping is a good thing.

Bottom posting helps when threads branch out in different directions,
and when people reply to a message that's not recent.

Definitely. Many people come into the thread or its derivatives late,
and don't have access to the older posts in the thread. Things get
really confused in any system where the effect precedes its cause.
Especially in complex systems like ongoing multiple-direction threads.

Hate to say it but I get as lazy as the top-posters when dealing with
top posts to a long thread. I skip over any one-line top-posted reply
that I have to page down several pages to understand what they're
replying about. All they want to do is save themselves some work at
cost to the subsequent readers.

IMNSHO. JMTC. YMMV. PSHWOTR. and other classic Usenet acronyms).