engineer

Here are some references for those who are interested
in improving the quality of their posts to this newsgroup:

Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

+What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/

The advantages of usenet's quoting conventions
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html

Why should I place my response below the quoted text?
http://allmyfaqs.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Top-posting_or_bottom-posting

Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html

news

If there is anything worse than a troll that doesn't admit his own
grandstanding for attention, it's an unelected newsgroup moderator.

db

Why do you need to attack?

On 12/25/03 2:50 AM, in article
0FwGb.39191$A%3.530742@ord-read.news.verio.net, "News" <news@spam.com>

john seago

I saw no attempt to 'moderate' merely pointers to logical and sensible
methodologies of response.
--
John Seago
Remove any $ for my address.

lynn

Actually, I appreciated the pointers. I can see where some of my bottom up
posts may have been difficult to follow. Being given hints on communicating
more effectively doesn't seem very troll-like to me.

lynn

seebs

Well, then, speaking as an elected moderator, I must add my voice of support.
Top-posting is uncouth.

-s
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