Ham op wrote:
I've used the internet since 1985 [DARPA net] and have yet to see the
11th commandment prohibiting top posting or forcing bottom posting.

Have you read the usenet posting guidelines?
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.... get a gui news reader...

John

"huLLy" wrote in message
...
John Smith wrote:
Dude:

I leave you here. If top posting is a real issue to you, I just
hope
you will survive life when a real problem comes your way...

I'd suggest you killfile me, or get used to top posting...


Please don't top post.

Ham Op:

I think some must still be attempting to use old linux/unix/dos news
readers from the commandline--only way they could have a problem other
than attempting to use one of the first GUI news readers ever
programmed...

Let'em get a decent news reader...

John

"Ham op" wrote in message
...
I've used the internet since 1985 [DARPA net] and have yet to see
the 11th commandment prohibiting top posting or forcing bottom
posting.

I prefer TOP POSTING. I've read the original message previously, it
is stored sequentially on my computer sorted by thread and date if I
need a refresher, and I don't have to scroll through a lot of
attached garbage to get to your meaningful or meaningless comments.

TOP POSTING, IMO, provides much more efficient use of my time.

Get a life. There's much more to life than criticizing where a
response is posted.



NunYa Bidness wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:24:02 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:


NunYa:

As senior software engineer, you bet I know about conformance!!!


Apparently not, you top posting twit.

I set the rules... well, unless someone can propose a good argument
why they should be broken.


You are breaking the rules. You certainly don't get to declare
them
in a forum that has been around long before you began posting to
it.

Yanno, that is what college is all about, you are forced to learn
the rules--so you can effectively bend and break 'em for a buck...


Aahhhh... The age old "I do whatever the hell I want." argument.
Nobody is getting paid here, dingledorf. It is a matter of common
courtesy.

Polymath:

Yep, unless you have all day to start paging though past commented
texts of posts--top posting is where it is at!!!

Some people have been sold the line that there is something leet about
bottom posting--obviously they haven't a clue... but even think they
fool others!

Only reason you should have a problem these days, is if you are still
using telnet to read your news and email!

John

"Polymath" wrote in message
...
Indeed, the "governing" RFC even went so far as to
state that bottom posting was the preferred method
of the author but that there was no hard and fast rule
about it.

With top posting, you can quickly "thumb" through the
posts with your hand on the "Next" button. With bottom
posting you have to page down through much already-seen
and over-quoted material. The net result is that bottom-posted
articles tend to get skipped without the new material being read
let alone being visible.

"Ham op" wrote in message
...
I've used the internet since 1985 [DARPA net] and have yet to see
the 11th commandment prohibiting top posting or forcing bottom
posting.

I prefer TOP POSTING. I've read the original message previously,
it is stored sequentially on my computer sorted by thread and date
if I need a refresher, and I don't have to scroll through a lot of
attached garbage to get to your meaningful or meaningless comments.

TOP POSTING, IMO, provides much more efficient use of my time.

Get a life. There's much more to life than criticizing where a
response is posted.

Jock:

Could you stop bottom posting, there are already too many here with
that bad habit!
grin

John

"Jock." wrote in message
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On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:50:34 -0400, Ham op
wrote:

I've used the internet since 1985 [DARPA net] and have yet to see
the
11th commandment prohibiting top posting or forcing bottom posting.

I prefer TOP POSTING. I've read the original message previously, it
is
stored sequentially on my computer sorted by thread and date if I
need a
refresher, and I don't have to scroll through a lot of attached
garbage
to get to your meaningful or meaningless comments.

TOP POSTING, IMO, provides much more efficient use of my time.

What's so bloody important about your time?

Don't top-post.

73 de Jock.
--

The English are not very spiritual people, so they
invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Cecil:

What? The hams are now attempting to set rules for usenet posting?

Have they began to claim they invented newsgroups too? Just after
they invented the internet and letting Al Gore help 'em?
grin

John

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...
Ham op wrote:
I've used the internet since 1985 [DARPA net] and have yet to see
the 11th commandment prohibiting top posting or forcing bottom
posting.

Have you read the usenet posting guidelines?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

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Big Mac:

Hmmm, that statement could only come from a person who, if anyone let
them work for them (be an employee), they are grossly negligent!

No wonder you can't decent service at Mc Donalds!!! They got Big Mac
serving now!!!

innocent-look

John

"Big Mac." wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 15:24:02 -0700, "John Smith"
drivelled:

Yanno, that is what college is all about, you are forced to learn
the
rules--so you can effectively bend and break 'em for a buck...

If you get paid a buck for anything, you are grossly overpaid.

Big Mac:

Well, that text of mine is pretty direct and may seem a bit
un-feeling...

Really, if someone is so mentally handicapped, or suffers Alzheimer's
where they need the text they are responding to right there so they
can read it every few seconds...

I can make allowances for the ones with "special needs"...

John

"Big Mac." wrote in message
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On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 12:38:23 -0700, "John Smith"
drivelled:

If you want to say something to me, don't intermingle it together
with
all the text I just wrote, I remember what I wrote, just write a
damn
reply...

He probably just did that because the average American seems to have
the attention span of a goldfish.

Not that I have anything against Americans. In fact I support
several
charities that look after dumb creatures.

The English are not very spiritual people, so they
invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Did George top post or bottom post?

Reg:

Your posts are too few.

But, when you post the posts are relevant in the most interesting of
ways.

That was a ZINGER!!!!

John

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...
The English are not very spiritual people, so they
invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
- George Bernard Shaw

Did George top post or bottom post?