In article ,
Bob Noel wrote:

In article ,
Robert Morien wrote:

And the vast majority (like 99.9%) of bottom posters DO trim...?

yes.

You must post the location of this paradise you live in.

In article ,
Dylan Smith wrote:

In article , Robert
Morien wrote:
In article ,
Dylan Smith wrote:
snip
A large NG with many top posted threads can soon add up to megabytes of
untrimmed quotes that a modem user must download (and possibly pay for).

And the vast majority (like 99.9%) of bottom posters DO trim...?

Indeed they do. If you 'bottom post' (or more likely, quote selective
bits and comment right underneath the point you're replying to), by the
very nature of the activity there is an incentive to trim the quotations
down.


You answer with a definitive yes and then four words in say "if".

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:58:34 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote:

In article qEQod.662427$8_6.443178@attbi_s04, mike regish wrote:
That's just dumb. Can you figure out what this reply is to? Or is it too
difficult for you?

The problem with top posting is:
(a) see witty earlier comment where someone wrote a conversation
bottom-to-top
(b) the vast majority (like 99.9%) of top posters do not trim what they
are quoting.

Pure crap -- I've seen plenty of 200-liners with not much more
than three lines at the end.

Shove that "99.9%" back up your ass where you found it.

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:44:23 -0000, Dylan Smith
wrote:

In article , Robert Morien wrote:
In article ,
Dylan Smith wrote:
snip
A large NG with many top posted threads can soon add up to megabytes of
untrimmed quotes that a modem user must download (and possibly pay for).

And the vast majority (like 99.9%) of bottom posters DO trim...?

Indeed they do. If you 'bottom post' (or more likely, quote selective
bits and comment right underneath the point you're replying to), by the
very nature of the activity there is an incentive to trim the quotations
down.

Incentive doesn't mean crap. I often top post, but still trim
the irrelevant stuff. Because I'm just a nice guy.

I also delete the ten sets of addrresses on jokes forwarded to
me and re-wrap the lines before sending them to anyone else.

In article ,
Robert Morien wrote:
And the vast majority (like 99.9%) of bottom posters DO trim...?

yes.

You must post the location of this paradise you live in.

The newsgroup that shall not be mentioned, other than it used to have an
FAQ that was exactly 666 lines long :-)

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In article , wrote:
(b) the vast majority (like 99.9%) of top posters do not trim what they
are quoting.

Pure crap -- I've seen plenty of 200-liners with not much more
than three lines at the end.

Shove that "99.9%" back up your ass where you found it.

Why so hostile?

Would it really have hurt you that much to say:

"I don't think that's true - I've seen plenty of 200-liners with not
much more than three lines up the end"

instead of spouting a bunch of invective?

I really have to wonder what's happened to the concept of "netiquette".
This has been a very long September indeed.

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Dylan Smith, Castletown, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
Frontier Elite Universe: http://www.alioth.net
"Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee"

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Friends don't let friends shop at Best Buy.

Wife was in line with friends by 4 am this morning. Came home with four
computers at $199 each. Sweet deal.

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:41:55 GMT, Never anonymous Bud
wrote:

Trying to steal the thunder from Arnold, "John A. Weeks III" on Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:55:13 -0600
spoke:

Because USENET goes places where there is no Internet, like central
Africa and the South Pole.

Usenet is a sub-set of the internet.

Without the internet, there is no usenet.

Wrong. you need to re-read your history of the internet.

Rich
--
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf
is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed
is crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
--R.A.Heinlein

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:10:20 GMT, Richard Thomas
wrote:

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 21:41:55 GMT, Never anonymous Bud
wrote:

Trying to steal the thunder from Arnold, "John A. Weeks III" on Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:55:13 -0600
spoke:

Because USENET goes places where there is no Internet, like central
Africa and the South Pole.

Usenet is a sub-set of the internet.

Without the internet, there is no usenet.

Wrong. you need to re-read your history of the internet.

Rich

It might not have started out that way, but it's pretty much the case
today. Theere are very few Fidonet nodes actively distributing Usenet
traffic these days, I'm pretty sure.