Student Pilot lands short of runway

"mike regish" wrote in message
news:Ol1uc.20109$n_6.11921@attbi_s53...
I actually DISLIKE bottom posting. It's a PIA to have to scroll down every
message.

Like I said, some people do argue in favor of top-posting out of laziness.
And as I said, you would only have to scroll in situations where people
don't trim the quotes properly.

Done properly, even lazy people would be fine with bottom-posting.

Did you have to scroll to read this? No, you didn't.

Pete

in article , Peter Duniho at
wrote on 5/29/04 9:41 AM:

"mike regish" wrote in message
news:Ol1uc.20109$n_6.11921@attbi_s53...
I actually DISLIKE bottom posting. It's a PIA to have to scroll down every
message.

Like I said, some people do argue in favor of top-posting out of laziness.
And as I said, you would only have to scroll in situations where people
don't trim the quotes properly.

Done properly, even lazy people would be fine with bottom-posting.

Did you have to scroll to read this? No, you didn't.

Pete

Top-posting is one thing, but what really gets me are the geniuses who reply
to posts without quoting ANYTHING--you know, the ones that say things like
"I completely agree with you", with absolutely no indication of whom they
are replying to.

"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
...
Top-posting is one thing, but what really gets me are the geniuses who
reply
to posts without quoting ANYTHING

They balance out the "geniuses" who reply to posts while quoting the
*entire* post to which they are replying, including the signature and
*previously* quoted material.

in article , Peter Duniho at
wrote on 5/29/04 9:56 AM:

"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
...
Top-posting is one thing, but what really gets me are the geniuses who
reply
to posts without quoting ANYTHING

They balance out the "geniuses" who reply to posts while quoting the
*entire* post to which they are replying, including the signature and
*previously* quoted material.

Previously quoted material may occasionally be needed for context (see above
for example). As for the signature thing, this is the first time I've ever
heard it mentioned by anyone, but I suppose it's no big deal for me to avoid
quoting them.

As for the signature thing, this is the first time I've ever
heard it mentioned by anyone, but I suppose it's no big deal for me to avoid
quoting them.


A proper sig line begins with dash dash space (see mine). Proper newsreaders
can be set to filter out everything after a proper sig marker. Thus, anybody
who quotes something including the sig is liable to have the meat of their post
chopped off just before it begins.

Jose



--
(for Email, make the obvious changes in my address)

On 29 May 2004 18:38:16 GMT, (Teacherjh)
wrote:


As for the signature thing, this is the first time I've ever
heard it mentioned by anyone, but I suppose it's no big deal for me to avoid
quoting them.


A proper sig line begins with dash dash space (see mine). Proper newsreaders
can be set to filter out everything after a proper sig marker. Thus, anybody
who quotes something including the sig is liable to have the meat of their post
chopped off just before it begins.

For gawd's sake no.

If you use a reader like Agent, when you go to respond you see nothing
beyond the sig makr. That means you can not edit anything out beyond
that point.

Throw out that old way of doing things and then you can quote properly
and snip away at your heart's desire.

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

Jose

On Sat, 29 May 2004 at 17:16:14 in message
, Philip Sondericker
wrote:

Previously quoted material may occasionally be needed for context (see above
for example). As for the signature thing, this is the first time I've ever
heard it mentioned by anyone, but I suppose it's no big deal for me to avoid
quoting them.

If the message is correctly constructed with hyphenhyphenspace as
a signature separator then, if you have a newsreader that works as they
are intended to work, the signature will be automatically removed when
you press reply.

You may have one guess as to which system does not work as it should.
The system really needs changing, as adding to the failure rate are many
people who appear to delete what they must assume is a surplus space
after the two hyphens!
--
David CL Francis

in article , David CL Francis at
wrote on 5/30/04 2:08 PM:

On Sat, 29 May 2004 at 17:16:14 in message
, Philip Sondericker
wrote:

Previously quoted material may occasionally be needed for context (see above
for example). As for the signature thing, this is the first time I've ever
heard it mentioned by anyone, but I suppose it's no big deal for me to avoid
quoting them.

If the message is correctly constructed with hyphenhyphenspace as
a signature separator then, if you have a newsreader that works as they
are intended to work, the signature will be automatically removed when
you press reply.

My newsreader must be correctly configured, because I've noticed that it
indeed does this (as you can see below--I swear it did it on its own!). This
renders somewhat ironic a previous poster taking me to task for not editing
out his signature, when it turns out he's not even separating it correctly.

You may have one guess as to which system does not work as it should.
The system really needs changing, as adding to the failure rate are many
people who appear to delete what they must assume is a surplus space
after the two hyphens!

"Philip Sondericker" wrote in message
...
[...] This
renders somewhat ironic a previous poster taking me to task for not
editing
out his signature, when it turns out he's not even separating it
correctly.

I choose to "sign" my posts with a single line, containing only my first
name. If you are trimming quotes (and you ought to be, though you in fact
don't), it is trivial for you to delete that line. It would be silly to add
another four characters to my post (two hyphens, a space, and a line break)
just so people who ought to be trimming quotes anyway don't have to manually
trim the last line of my post.

The only irony is that you still don't seem to get the concept of trimming
quotes.

Pete

Nor did I have to make personal attacks.

mike regish

Did you know what I was replying to? Yes you did.
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...
"mike regish" wrote in message
news:Ol1uc.20109$n_6.11921@attbi_s53...
I actually DISLIKE bottom posting. It's a PIA to have to scroll down
every
message.

Like I said, some people do argue in favor of top-posting out of laziness.
And as I said, you would only have to scroll in situations where people
don't trim the quotes properly.

Done properly, even lazy people would be fine with bottom-posting.

Did you have to scroll to read this? No, you didn't.

Pete