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March 26th 04, 03:56 PM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
Roger Hunt wrote:
In article , Paul Schmidt wrote Top posting, I think originated, because most Useneters have the annoying habit, of quoting everything from the entire thread, then adding one or two lines to the end. If you add your "ya man" to the top, then people don't need to scroll all the way through 47,654,251 lines of crap to find that your quoting a quote of a quote of a quote, and that there is 6 lines of content, and 47,654,245 lines of crap.... Does that include the 3,156,883 lines of flamboyant sig? Yes, and another 6,342,472 lines of "and so and so wrote" even when whatever they wrote has no meaning anymore, because it's lost in the stuff.... 
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March 26th 04, 04:22 PM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
In article , Paul Schmidt
wrote Roger Hunt wrote: In article , Paul Schmidt wrote Top posting, I think originated, because most Useneters have the annoying habit, of quoting everything from the entire thread, then adding one or two lines to the end. If you add your "ya man" to the top, then people don't need to scroll all the way through 47,654,251 lines of crap to find that your quoting a quote of a quote of a quote, and that there is 6 lines of content, and 47,654,245 lines of crap.... Does that include the 3,156,883 lines of flamboyant sig? Yes, and another 6,342,472 lines of "and so and so wrote" even when whatever they wrote has no meaning anymore, because it's lost in the stuff.... g I suppose that's marginally better than the half-arsed snip that loses portions of the info, or puts things out of context (mind you it's great fun when trolling). -- Roger Hunt
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March 26th 04, 05:08 PM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
Top post? Top post? Did you say Top post? *******s.
"DJ" wrote in message ... so do I..... wrote in message news:40636E48.19247.9D125B@localhost... At least that is what Steve Young opines and i personally agree with him
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#14
March 26th 04, 05:11 PM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
Top posting is "bad?"
What a bunch of idiots! "Canongirly" wrote in message ... Top post? Top post? Did you say Top post? *******s. "DJ" wrote in message ... so do I..... wrote in message news:40636E48.19247.9D125B@localhost... At least that is what Steve Young opines and i personally agree with him
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March 26th 04, 06:16 PM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
Although not germane to a photography group... although I guess it
could apply due to interest, many groups have blind posters such as many of the ham radio groups and reflectors. There, top posting is not only accepted, but requested. Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member) (N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair) www.rogerhalstead.com On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 09:23:36 -0500, Paul Schmidt wrote: wrote: At least that is what Steve Young opines and i personally agree with him Top posting, I think originated, because most Useneters have the annoying habit, of quoting everything from the entire thread, then adding one or two lines to the end. If you add your "ya man" to the top, then people don't need to scroll all the way through 47,654,251 lines of crap to find that your quoting a quote of a quote of a quote, and that there is 6 lines of content, and 47,654,245 lines of crap.... Paul
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March 26th 04, 06:38 PM
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snip What are we talking about?
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March 26th 04, 07:57 PM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
Paul Schmidt
Yes, and another 6,342,472 lines of "and so and so wrote" even when whatever they wrote has no meaning anymore, because it's lost in the stuff.... "Roger Hunt" wrote g I suppose that's marginally better than the half-arsed snip that loses portions of the info, or puts things out of context (mind you it's great fun when trolling). like one of our favorites? (msxmanic?) -- A newbie's first Usenet encounter occurs without a prophylactic
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#18
March 27th 04, 02:39 AM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
In article ,
Steve Young wrote Paul Schmidt Yes, and another 6,342,472 lines of "and so and so wrote" even when whatever they wrote has no meaning anymore, because it's lost in the stuff.... "Roger Hunt" wrote g I suppose that's marginally better than the half-arsed snip that loses portions of the info, or puts things out of context (mind you it's great fun when trolling). like one of our favorites? (msxmanic?) Thanks for the tip, I shall peruse the archives ... ;-) -- Roger Hunt
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March 27th 04, 02:40 AM
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In article , fmaas
wrote snip What are we talking about? We're talking about snip, of course, as in subject line. -- Roger Hunt
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#20
March 27th 04, 02:45 AM
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People who top post should be banned from Usenet
The most irritating pepul are doze dat cant spell and don use punchuation
"Pepys" wrote in message ... Me too "Tony Spadaro" wrote in message om... I'll go along with that. -- http://www.chapelhillnoir.com home of The Camera-ist's Manifesto The Improved Links Pages are at http://www.chapelhillnoir.com/links/mlinks00.html A sample chapter from my novel "Haight-Ashbury" is at http://www.chapelhillnoir.com/writ/hait/hatitl.html "DJ" wrote in message ... so do I..... wrote in message news:40636E48.19247.9D125B@localhost... At least that is what Steve Young opines and i personally agree with him
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