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In a previous article, "Steve House" said:
Right - the accusation that I'm an idiot is "demonstrating expertise" Just Jim never called you an idiot. I don't think anybody did until now. But *now* I'm going to to call you an idiot, because you obviously are one. human interaction are somehow suspended. I'm an old hand at the Net and Usenet, having used it daily since about 1980. I'm also a very new student Bull****. Nobody who was using Usenet in 1980 does TOFU posting. Up until the never ending September of 1993, anybody who didn't learn to trim their quoted text would have been hounded off of any reasonable newsgroup. correction where it was in error. I suppose we egg's should just sit silently in rapturous awe at the feet of the Masters. Thanks for making me No, people who make wrong statements should take correction without accusing the person making the corrections of being arrogant. feel so very welcome to the group. You're not welcome to the group. People who can accept correction are. So are people who don't lie about their qualifications. -- Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes. |
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Where precisly did I lie about my online experience? You assume, because for
some strange reason you abhore the readiblity of a continuous block of text and prefer to find and reassemble brief fragments interspersed within the replied-to message's text in an attempt to come up with a cohesive premise and discussion, that anyone who top-posts simply MUST be an online/Internet newby. I assure you that is not the case. Complete paragraphs, with an opening sentence, discussion, and closing, is far preferable to snipits of phrase and isolated sentences. Some would argue that the ability to review a conversation thread by simply scrolling and seeing each message in its entirety in reverse order far outways the cost few microseconds of broadband transfer time - the idea that top-posting is an evil came about to save bytes in the days when 2400 baud modems were considered high speed data transfers and it should be relegated to the same museum where you find the hardware that gave rise to it. "Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "Steve House" said: Right - the accusation that I'm an idiot is "demonstrating expertise" Just Jim never called you an idiot. I don't think anybody did until now. But *now* I'm going to to call you an idiot, because you obviously are one. human interaction are somehow suspended. I'm an old hand at the Net and Usenet, having used it daily since about 1980. I'm also a very new student Bull****. Nobody who was using Usenet in 1980 does TOFU posting. Up until the never ending September of 1993, anybody who didn't learn to trim their quoted text would have been hounded off of any reasonable newsgroup. correction where it was in error. I suppose we egg's should just sit silently in rapturous awe at the feet of the Masters. Thanks for making me No, people who make wrong statements should take correction without accusing the person making the corrections of being arrogant. feel so very welcome to the group. You're not welcome to the group. People who can accept correction are. So are people who don't lie about their qualifications. -- Paul Tomblin , not speaking for anybody There is no substitute for good manners, except, perhaps, fast reflexes. |
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![]() "SteveH" wrote in message ... I assure you that is not the case. No, you're just an insensitive nonconformist. Complete paragraphs, with an opening sentence, discussion, and closing, is far preferable to snipits of phrase and isolated sentences. Fine, that still doesn't explain why you don't trim off the needless included text from the previous posters. If you're going to write your own book, there's no reason to include everything. Most people have news article retentions of a couple of weeks at least. |
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Been around since it was telnet and before that tty, and I have always top
posted so that the first thing the reader views is the new information... If he is too brain dead to remember what has been posted prior, he is free to read on down or search the archives... Denny - awk grep nnnn "Paul Tomblin" wrote in message ... In a previous article, "Steve House" said: |
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