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July 30th 05, 07:44 AM
Spike
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On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:46 +0100, Spike
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Ed Price wrote:
Obviously, if you don't take the
time to distill the OP's comments, then you bury your reply under his
verbiage. Perhaps one of the best arguments for editing is that you have to
think about what's important in the previous post. That allows you to focus
your reply.
What an excellent philosophy.
Perhaps the top-posters and non-editors are merely guilty of lack of
focus and an ability to think.
Or are just unwilling to trace over ground already many-times plowed.
Or ploughed.
One thing that top-posters fail to recognise is that not all ng users
set their readers to order posts by thread. It is quite possible, with
a suitable newsreader, to order posts by time and date, rather than
subject.
Unfortunately, those who merely bang the Reply key to top-post their
answer frequently have the point to which they are replying way off
the bottom of the screen, which it is not immediately obvious without
scrolling down.
Top-posting also encorages the lazy or incompetent to avoid properly
trimming their posts.
There are even those who used to trim and bottom-post who now top-post
exclusively, but who quote the RFC as if it is some religious mantra
in some form of self-justification.
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