That's just dumb. Can you figure out what this reply is to? Or is it too
difficult for you?

mike regish

"Scott en Aztlán" wrote in message
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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 07:30:47 -0500, "Morgans"
wrote:

I just killfile them.

I killfile top-posters, too.

It's easier than trying to piece together whatever it was they were
trying to say.

--
Friends don't let friends shop at Best Buy.

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. Usenet isn't email, and repeated top-posting leads to two
line comments on top of 50K long top-posted trails of redundant
messages. Now you might say 'well, 50K - big deal' but replicated across
tens of thousands of news servers... not to mention most people STILL
are not on broadband and quote a few still pay for dialup by the minute.
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).

--
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"

In article ,
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. Usenet isn't email, and repeated top-posting leads to two
line comments on top of 50K long top-posted trails of redundant
messages. Now you might say 'well, 50K - big deal' but replicated across
tens of thousands of news servers... not to mention most people STILL
are not on broadband and quote a few still pay for dialup by the minute.
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...?

In article ,
Robert Morien wrote:

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

yes.

--
Bob Noel

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 ,
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 :-)

--
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"

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.

--
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"

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

In article , Robert Morien wrote:
In article ,
Dylan Smith wrote:
snip
and again
Indeed they do. If you 'bottom post' (or more likely, quote selective

That I just don't believe. Many times and even in this group I've
scrolled down through pages of text to find a two or three line answer
to the whole thing.

OTOH I've never forgotten to snip the irrelevant text like a lot of
posters. :-))

The problem with the top posted one liner is you need to look to see
if that was the only comment.

and again

Although this appears to be bottom posted, it was really a piece out
of the middle. (selective quoting) with the whole bottom snipped.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

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 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.