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Polymath July 29th 05 10:12 PM

You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:35:22 GMT, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI
Gave us:

Usenet?
on
it

You act as if you haven't been in Usenet more than two months, and
then act as if you are a twelve year old adolescent twit when you
decide that long accepted standards no longer apply, or do not apply
to you. Get a clue, dumbass.




Polymath July 29th 05 10:13 PM

sdrawkcab is backwards spelt backwards!

"Walt Davidson" wrote in message
...
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:59:26 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote:
Placing your answer in front of the text you are replying to IS
backwards, ass.

Not only is it backwards ... it is also backward!




Polymath July 29th 05 10:16 PM

Hey, what a good idea!

"Richard Fry" wrote in message
...
I will post this at both the bottom and top, trying to please everybody at
once.


I will post this at both the bottom and top, trying to please everybody at
once.


Hey, what a good idea!



Polymath July 29th 05 10:18 PM

In view of the Childish Broadcast (CB) quoted below,
would it be fair to assume that "NunYa Bidness" is some
kind of infantile CBer handle?

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
..

If you are skipping posts in threads which you were at one time
reading, you have some serious skills problems that go far beyond your
simplistic laziness to use more than one clic per post. You have the
mentality of a high school drop-out.




Polymath July 29th 05 10:19 PM

Right on!

"Ham op" wrote in message
...
You haven't given one logical reason to bottom post.

You revert to name calling, insults, IQ assassination, challenging my IQ,
while clearly demonstrating your IQ. Give a positive benefit of bottom
posting, other than that's the way it's done, specially when a post may be
very long, several pages or more, that requires scrolling through to
locate your asinine answer. I could read your answer immediately and
simply ignore it, if it were TOP POSTED.

NunYa Bidness wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 10:41:09 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:


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!



Your an utter idiot.





Polymath July 29th 05 10:20 PM

What a well-reasoned argument in favour of top-posting!

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
You do not understand what Usenet is then. It isn't a message board
between two folks having a conversation, it IS a place where such
conversations can benefit any and all that read them. The entire
point of proper posting is so that ANY person popping into the group
for a read, can garner the entire idea of a post *without* having to
go find, download, and plow through a number of others to do it.




Polymath July 29th 05 10:21 PM

So that they will decrease with increasing time?

"Reg Edwards" wrote in message
...

But how are they going to solve the Rio "street-kids" problem then?

Bring them over here and employ them as arithmetic teachers.





Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 29th 05 10:51 PM

Polymath wrote:
You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!

At least I can use a measure rather than a micrometer.
....(_!_)...

John Smith July 29th 05 11:03 PM

Frank:

Pull up your pants!

John

"Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI" wrote in message
...
Polymath wrote:
You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!

At least I can use a measure rather than a micrometer.
...(_!_)...




NunYa Bidness July 29th 05 11:18 PM

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:28:13 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

NunYa:

Do you even know about that man you just insulted?


It doesn't matter, you non-conformal twit!

I grew up reading articles of his in publications.


Good for you.

You picked the wrong
personality there... you just DO NOT realize EXACTLY how much you have
telegraphed your stupidity--but trust me, you could NOT have done it better...


Bull****. The words I wrote are spot on.

You would be hard pressed to ever prove yourself his equal...


I am not trying to. What I am trying to do is to get you idiots to
realize that putting your bull**** above what you are replying to is
about as retarded as it gets, dumbass.

NunYa Bidness July 29th 05 11:19 PM

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:12:50 +0100, "Polymath"
Gave us:

You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!


You're an idiot.

NunYa Bidness July 29th 05 11:19 PM

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:13:59 +0100, "Polymath"
Gave us:

sdrawkcab is backwards spelt backwards!


A complete idiot, you are.

Fred W4JLE July 29th 05 11:26 PM

Retarded is posting profanities. It indicates a lack of vocabulary, and
speaks volumes as to your character.

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:28:13 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

NunYa:

Do you even know about that man you just insulted?


It doesn't matter, you non-conformal twit!

I grew up reading articles of his in publications.


Good for you.

You picked the wrong
personality there... you just DO NOT realize EXACTLY how much you have
telegraphed your stupidity--but trust me, you could NOT have done it

better...

Bull****. The words I wrote are spot on.

You would be hard pressed to ever prove yourself his equal...


I am not trying to. What I am trying to do is to get you idiots to
realize that putting your bull**** above what you are replying to is
about as retarded as it gets, dumbass.




John Smith July 29th 05 11:31 PM

Fred:

Your logic is impeccable, but wasted on the likes of that poster...

Hip, hip, cheerio old bean, we move forward...

John

"Fred W4JLE" wrote in message
...
Retarded is posting profanities. It indicates a lack of vocabulary, and
speaks volumes as to your character.

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:28:13 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

NunYa:

Do you even know about that man you just insulted?


It doesn't matter, you non-conformal twit!

I grew up reading articles of his in publications.


Good for you.

You picked the wrong
personality there... you just DO NOT realize EXACTLY how much you have
telegraphed your stupidity--but trust me, you could NOT have done it

better...

Bull****. The words I wrote are spot on.

You would be hard pressed to ever prove yourself his equal...


I am not trying to. What I am trying to do is to get you idiots to
realize that putting your bull**** above what you are replying to is
about as retarded as it gets, dumbass.






Fred W4JLE July 29th 05 11:57 PM

Only designed to spin him up. His only response will be a string of
invectives. As he won't see this until he responds to mine, he will now be
aware as to how easily he is manipulated.

Bet right now he is doing his best to cancel his previous post...

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Fred:

Your logic is impeccable, but wasted on the likes of that poster...

Hip, hip, cheerio old bean, we move forward...

John

"Fred W4JLE" wrote in message
...
Retarded is posting profanities. It indicates a lack of vocabulary, and
speaks volumes as to your character.

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:28:13 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

NunYa:

Do you even know about that man you just insulted?

It doesn't matter, you non-conformal twit!

I grew up reading articles of his in publications.

Good for you.

You picked the wrong
personality there... you just DO NOT realize EXACTLY how much you have
telegraphed your stupidity--but trust me, you could NOT have done it

better...

Bull****. The words I wrote are spot on.

You would be hard pressed to ever prove yourself his equal...

I am not trying to. What I am trying to do is to get you idiots to
realize that putting your bull**** above what you are replying to is
about as retarded as it gets, dumbass.








John Smith July 30th 05 12:10 AM

Fred:

You are an evil man, an evil man...
satisfied-smirk-and-a-wink

John

"Fred W4JLE" wrote in message
...
Only designed to spin him up. His only response will be a string of
invectives. As he won't see this until he responds to mine, he will now be
aware as to how easily he is manipulated.

Bet right now he is doing his best to cancel his previous post...

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Fred:

Your logic is impeccable, but wasted on the likes of that poster...

Hip, hip, cheerio old bean, we move forward...

John

"Fred W4JLE" wrote in message
...
Retarded is posting profanities. It indicates a lack of vocabulary, and
speaks volumes as to your character.

"NunYa Bidness" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:28:13 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

NunYa:

Do you even know about that man you just insulted?

It doesn't matter, you non-conformal twit!

I grew up reading articles of his in publications.

Good for you.

You picked the wrong
personality there... you just DO NOT realize EXACTLY how much you have
telegraphed your stupidity--but trust me, you could NOT have done it
better...

Bull****. The words I wrote are spot on.

You would be hard pressed to ever prove yourself his equal...

I am not trying to. What I am trying to do is to get you idiots to
realize that putting your bull**** above what you are replying to is
about as retarded as it gets, dumbass.









Spike July 30th 05 12:17 AM

Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:

Polymouth wrote:

You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!

At least I can use a measure rather than a micrometer.
...(_!_)...


Truly it can be said that of this week's outbursts
'Les sanglots longs Des violons Du Grand Poseur
Blessent mon coeur D'une langueur Monotone'

from
Aero Spike

John Smith July 30th 05 12:31 AM

Spike:

Knock that off, only girly-men defile their mouths with the french language.

Don't think word of this isn't going to reach arnold...

John

"Spike" wrote in message
...
Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:

Polymouth wrote:

You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!

At least I can use a measure rather than a micrometer.
...(_!_)...


Truly it can be said that of this week's outbursts
'Les sanglots longs Des violons Du Grand Poseur
Blessent mon coeur D'une langueur Monotone'

from
Aero Spike




Fred W4JLE July 30th 05 12:39 AM

Sounds like some kind of Emile Zola nonsense...

"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Spike:

Knock that off, only girly-men defile their mouths with the french

language.

Don't think word of this isn't going to reach arnold...

John

"Spike" wrote in message
...
Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:

Polymouth wrote:

You've got the measure of FRANCES TURNIP-SMELLY!

At least I can use a measure rather than a micrometer.
...(_!_)...


Truly it can be said that of this week's outbursts
'Les sanglots longs Des violons Du Grand Poseur
Blessent mon coeur D'une langueur Monotone'

from
Aero Spike






Ham op July 30th 05 12:49 AM

Nunya, you are so focused on a rule for the sake of an archaic rule that
I wonder why you don't ride a horse, donkey or camel as your primary
transportation. That way you never have to upgrade your thinking to
include motor vehicles.

If you are reading this thread from the beginning, TOP DOWN, you are
scrolling through hundreds of line of comments to find new comments.
Never mind your wasted time. Think about the wasted bandwidth!!

Get with the changes that are happening. Bandwidth is a limited
resource. TOP POST when and where appropriate.

BTW, vulgarity never wins an argument or establishes a well thought out
point. Vulgarity causes people to form an opinion of you that is not in
your best interest. Your use of vulgarity drags you to the gutter and
many people simply turn you OFF.



NunYa Bidness wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 19:28:13 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:


NunYa:

Do you even know about that man you just insulted?



It doesn't matter, you non-conformal twit!

I grew up reading articles of his in publications.



Good for you.


You picked the wrong
personality there... you just DO NOT realize EXACTLY how much you have
telegraphed your stupidity--but trust me, you could NOT have done it better...



Bull****. The words I wrote are spot on.


You would be hard pressed to ever prove yourself his equal...



I am not trying to. What I am trying to do is to get you idiots to
realize that putting your bull**** above what you are replying to is
about as retarded as it gets, dumbass.



[email protected] July 30th 05 05:23 AM

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 19:59:23 +0100, Walt Davidson
wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:27:56 -0700, "John Smith"
wrote:

I will be top posting...


And I will be killfiling you, like all other top-posting fools ....
because top-posters invariably have nothing to say that is worth
reading.

Goodbye.


That's sure a rational connection. Are you sure you don't work
in HR?


[email protected] July 30th 05 05:27 AM



If you're keeping up with the conversation, top posting is far
more efficinet then reading the bottom posters who expect ou to scroll
through a hunderd liones oof crap so you can find out their
contribution consisted of "Huh?"


On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 02:07:28 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote:

On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 17:16:06 -0700, Roy Lewallen Gave
us:

My, that's just too good to pass up. An opportunity to have a title
bestowed by the esteemed and widely respected authority on etiquette and
gee, who knows what else, NunYa Bidness.

Roy Lewallen, W7EL
-- now with yet another title, FAI



Like I said before... You seem all too willing to conform to the
standards and practices of the HAM world. What is so different about
this forum, and doing things the way they have always been done here?
Why do you have to blatantly display your unwillingness to conform to
what has long been the accepted practice?

Screw you, and your hypocrisy.
Yet another idiot, you are.
The word for today is CONFORM


Maoist bull****.


[email protected] July 30th 05 05:31 AM

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 18:26:45 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:

Retarded is posting profanities. It indicates a lack of vocabulary, and
speaks volumes as to your character.


Bull****. I was once tested and found to have a vocabulary
size comparable only to lawyers and clergymen -- the two
highest-scoring groups. It is expanded, not diminished, by some
hundred or two peofane words.profane words.

Stop your inane whimpering jst because you can't express
yourself well.

[email protected] July 30th 05 05:33 AM

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:22:32 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 15:06:54 +0100, "Polymath"
Gave us:

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.


If you are skipping posts in threads which you were at one time
reading, you have some serious skills problems that go far beyond your
simplistic laziness to use more than one clic per post. You have the
mentality of a high school drop-out.


What a bunch of psychobabble. Keep your soft science (at best)
off of a technical forum.

[email protected] July 30th 05 05:37 AM

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 04:56:16 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 20:04:00 -0400, Ham op Gave
us:

You haven't given one logical reason to bottom post.

You revert to name calling, insults, IQ assassination, challenging my
IQ, while clearly demonstrating your IQ. Give a positive benefit of
bottom posting, other than that's the way it's done, specially when a
post may be very long, several pages or more, that requires scrolling
through to locate your asinine answer. I could read your answer
immediately and simply ignore it, if it were TOP POSTED.


You do not understand what Usenet is then. It isn't a message board
between two folks having a conversation, it IS a place where such
conversations can benefit any and all that read them. The entire
point of proper posting is so that ANY person popping into the group
for a read, can garner the entire idea of a post *without* having to
go find, download, and plow through a number of others to do it.


**** the dilettantes -- if they're hot to find out what the
top post was about wjen they "pop in", let them get off their lazy
asses and scroll down. I've already read all that crap and don't feel
like scrolling past it for thirty posts in a row.

If you can't keep up with the flow, move to
alt.kindergarten.reading.level.

Help us all out by "popping out".

It
has nothing to do with YOUR convenience and everything to do with the
stray "just walked in" reader. Your attitude about the whole thing is
what is asinine, and that alone is what prompted your much deserved
put downs. In other words, you DO have a reduced IQ if you don't even
have the time to read, learn and follow the protocols and expectations
of a forum you happen to think is some "do as you please" thing, when
it is not, by any stretch. Your convenience is not the issue in any
way.



[email protected] July 30th 05 05:39 AM

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 14:37:10 +0000, Jock.
wrote:

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?


It's important to me. Let's just settle on -- I'll top-post
and move on; you can just ignore the first few lines and read to the
bottom, then scroll back up to the top to find the really good stuff.


Don't top-post.

73 de Jock.



[email protected] July 30th 05 05:44 AM

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:18:40 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote:

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:50:34 -0400, Ham op Gave
us:

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 isn't about what you have read, or what you have stored. Get a
clue.

, 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.


What you fail to realize is that what you have stored, and the
manner which you read Usenet is not how everyone does it. The
protocols (which do exist) are in place to increase understanding of
the post from that very post, without the need to look up or download
additional posts. Are you getting it yet?


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


You are what Usenet users that actually know what the forum is about
call LAZY. How hard can it be, and a few seconds is not some critical
number. Are you really that pathetic?


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


Funny that the only places idiots like you conform is when there is
no way to get what you want otherwise, or if a cop has a gun pointed
at you. You are the same type of idiot I see here in California that
doesn't stop for stopped traffic. They traverse either to the right
or left like little inertial idiots, or the idiots that wear their
pants down past their ass.


****, dude -- move to a more upscale neighborhood.

(Bottom posted so that you don't have to give up too many of our
precious IQ points to find it.)


[email protected] July 30th 05 05:48 AM

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 22:16:41 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:

Glad you enjoy it John, As California is about to fall in the ocean from the
"big one", we should probably enjoy the left wing babble before it becomes a
mere memory...


Bull**** -- at the big one, everything east of CA will slide
into the Atlantic.




"John Smith" wrote in message
...
Fred:

My gawd man, your posts have improved tremendously since I have come here!




[email protected] July 30th 05 05:49 AM

right.
A
****in'



On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 00:35:22 GMT, Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI
wrote:

Usenet?
on
it
do
why
so
not
thought
I
backwards?
everything
write
normally
you
Do
NunYa Bidness wrote:
On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 09:50:34 -0400, Ham op Gave
us:


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 isn't about what you have read, or what you have stored. Get a
clue.


, 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.



What you fail to realize is that what you have stored, and the
manner which you read Usenet is not how everyone does it. The
protocols (which do exist) are in place to increase understanding of
the post from that very post, without the need to look up or download
additional posts. Are you getting it yet?


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



You are what Usenet users that actually know what the forum is about
call LAZY. How hard can it be, and a few seconds is not some critical
number. Are you really that pathetic?


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



Funny that the only places idiots like you conform is when there is
no way to get what you want otherwise, or if a cop has a gun pointed
at you. You are the same type of idiot I see here in California that
doesn't stop for stopped traffic. They traverse either to the right
or left like little inertial idiots, or the idiots that wear their
pants down past their ass.

YAWN! Another 12 year old who thinks he pioneered the universe.



[email protected] July 30th 05 05:50 AM



Look up the phrase "**** off".

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 17:00:00 GMT, NunYa Bidness
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:02:30 -0700, "John Smith"
Gave us:

NunYa NumNuts:

Ohh, I know how IT USED TO BE...


I know that you're an idiot.

Some just don't realize HOW IT IS NOW.


That'd be you as well. Nothing has changed.

It is a text based forum. Get used to it.

Look up the word chronology.



[email protected] July 30th 05 05:54 AM

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:14:44 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

John Smith wrote:
Take books for example, when getting a new ones, in a series, I
hardly ever re-read the old one just to get a start on the new one.


Yes, but do you read the last chapter of the book first? :-)


Not always, but I just opened a book last week to around page
89. It was a hell of a good read, so I found it worth going back to
restart at page one. :-)

I also rotate around among three to five books I'm reading
simultaneously.


[email protected] July 30th 05 05:55 AM

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:14:44 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

John Smith wrote:
Take books for example, when getting a new ones, in a series, I
hardly ever re-read the old one just to get a start on the new one.


Yes, but do you read the last chapter of the book first? :-)


No -- that would be too much like skimming through to get to
the bottom posting. ;-)

[email protected] July 30th 05 06:05 AM

On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 20:20:01 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

John Smith wrote:
... you still got a bottle of that wine left (napa valley, NOT french, ...


Franzia Merlot from Ripon, CA. Where is Ripon?


Just east of Ripoff. :-)
Acually http://www.cityofripon.org/_Maps/10mirad.htm


[email protected] July 30th 05 06:09 AM

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 17:44:13 -0700, "Ed Price"
wrote:


"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.




And I prefer editing and bottom posting. 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.

Another criteria for deciding to top or bottom post is your estimation of
the audience. Critical thinkers will want to review the salient points of
the discussion, and an edited bottom post gives them the facts in a linear
fashion. However, if you think your audience is a bunch of
attention-deficient rude boobs, then top posting is indicated. Top posting
is ideally suited to replies that consist of "Yeah, me too!"



I rarely see those -- they usually appear at the end of a
properly-formatted bottom post, right after the original 235-line
posting.

By the way, not to be a spelling Nazi, but if you're going to
appear oh so proper and pompous, you really should look up the
singular of criteria for when (as above) its the correct word.

[email protected] July 30th 05 06:10 AM

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:46 +0100, Spike
wrote:

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.

from
Aero Spike



Or are just unwilling to trace over ground already many-times
plowed.

John Smith July 30th 05 06:13 AM

kashe:

You are in good form tonight, I am splitting a gut reading those responses of
yours! grin

I was bored and headed for bed, till you showed up...

John

wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:14:44 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:

John Smith wrote:
Take books for example, when getting a new ones, in a series, I
hardly ever re-read the old one just to get a start on the new one.


Yes, but do you read the last chapter of the book first? :-)


No -- that would be too much like skimming through to get to
the bottom posting. ;-)




[email protected] July 30th 05 06:14 AM

On Sun, 24 Jul 2005 07:40:02 +0100, Big Mac.
wrote:

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.



Shoudn't you be out looking for bombers instead of wasting
time on usenet?

Spike July 30th 05 07:44 AM

wrote:

On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 08:28:46 +0100, Spike
wrote:

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.

from
Aero Spike

Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 30th 05 10:12 AM

NunYa Bidness wrote:
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:13:59 +0100, "Polymath"
Gave us:


sdrawkcab is backwards spelt backwards!



A complete idiot, you are.


No he's not, there's LOADS of bits missing.
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;-)
73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk

Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI July 30th 05 10:15 AM

Spike wrote:

Truly it can be said that of this week's outbursts
'Les sanglots longs Des violons Du Grand Poseur
Blessent mon coeur D'une langueur Monotone'

from
Aero Spike


Wot? That's foreign innit? Bleedin' Frogs!
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73 de Frank Turner-Smith G3VKI - mine's a pint.
http://turner-smith.co.uk


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