lane gray, czar castic

Did anyone get to keep the rod?
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-=prozak=-

Nope, maybe you should read previous postings?

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lane gray, czar castic

Perhaps one shouldn't top-post, either (or perhaps trim, too). When I
looked in here, I saw nothing about it, but then roadrunner's swervers
have gone wonky for the last few weeks. I'd thought they'd mostly gotten
better, but they proved *awfully* slow grabbing the next bunch of headers.

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rich g.

Nope, a repeat of last year's Pant Devil prank. Would have been nice if it'd
counted towards an encounter so I could meet the blue skinned bugger in the
battledome. I'm spinning the wheel of fortune constantly trying to meet him
and no luck. Twice with the wheel of misfortune, but that doesn't seem to
count. *sigh*

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mikki

I much prefer top posting and don't understand why some consider it to be bad or
wrong. (and know several other people who feel the same way.)
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~*connie*~

its the way it started, so its the way it has always been, so people tend to
stick to that. Although quite a number of the bottom posting advocates do
not believe in snipping, which is also the way it started, so the way it
always has been.

They like it so they can see the whole thread before seeing the response.
To me that is redundant. If I have forgotten what is the thread, I can look
at the previous post, and not force everyone to read - or scroll - the 20 or
so replies to the original post..

Top posters and bottom posters will never agree, so we just have to learn to
get along. and fortunately this group does both, and accepts that - with a
few minor exceptions.

-=prozak=-

I don't see any problem, it's only meant to be bad because it goes against
how we read from top to bottom and therefore our reply should be at the
bottom. I feel though that as the internet is different to books those rules
don't apply, that's why abbreviations such as lol and lmao can be used.
Anyway if you use outlook and want to stop Top-posting here's the patch
thingy http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/


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meredith

It's because messages are a conversation, and top-posting makes it hard
to impossible to follow the conversation.

I.E.

A. Because it's hard to read.
Q. Why is top-posting not a good thing?

meredith

I agree with Czar Castic.

Yes, I already posted, explaining the problem, but here is a decent
example of why it's a bad idea. See what a pain it is finding what I'm
responding to?


No, it's more that it's hard to follow a conversation from when it's
bottom to top. And should I have put my response to what you just said
*above* what you said?

mikki

well, I disagree; I find it quite easy to follow and much more convenient than
scrolling down to find someone's response. As I said, I much prefer top posting
and definitely snipping.!.