Why is Bottom-posting better than Top-posting

"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
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"Ada Prill" wrote in message
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"J. Hugh Sullivan" wrote in message
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As a newcomer to this news group I note that you have exercised your
right to choose (to top post) but failed to give any credible reasons
for doing so - or any incredible ones for that matter.

For those of us who have news readers that bunch postings by thread, it
is
extremely irritating to read message A, scroll through A to get to B six
seconds later, scroll through A and B to get to C six seconds after
that,
etc. If I have not recently seen A and B, it is easy enough to refresh
my
memory by scrolling down, but the usual situation is that I have JUST
read
the postings that I must scroll through to get to the new information.
When the thread gets long, I really detest having to go through multiple
screens
of previously read stuff to get to something at the bottom that says "I
agree with XXX," when I could have found this brief entry quite easily
on
the top.

This illustrates perfectly the selfishness and silliness of the *only*
argument that top-posters have ever been able to present for their
behavior.
"I am too lazy to do some scrolling - wears me right out to press that
PgDn
key 3 or 4 times! I don't care how much top posting makes things
unintelligible or difficult for others, I'm going to keep doing it *MY*
way."

And the above perfectly illustrates the willingness of one side to demonize
the other with an overly broad brush. Quite a surprise coming form someone
as educated as you, Peter.

snip
Hardly a newly-invented rule, having been around since the start of
USENET.

And there has never been actual evidence to support this apparent myth. And
even if there was, it's a flailing Appeal to Tradition. Having someone walk
in front of a horseless carriage waving a light has been around for longer.
Beating women who burned their husband's supper has been around longer.
Enslaving ohte rhumans has been around longer. What's your point?

Will you please stop posting this article. It's OFF-TOPIC and it's poorly
line-wrapped. It's also a perfect example of how a single post is a welcome
discussion and mutliple posts are SPAM.
HAND

I always top post and generally if a person uses more than a screen or
two bottom posting I hit "next." I refuse to read a dozen pages of
garbage to finally find some idiot saying "I agree." In the military we
teach that the important data should be put up front. That has always
made sense to me.

Le Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:24:27 -0500 (EST), dans
rec.collecting.stamps.discuss, (Herb F.) a écrit :

I always top post and generally if a person uses more than a screen or
two bottom posting I hit "next."

You are right. May be there are new ideas in such messages. New ideas
are dangerous for mental health.

I refuse to read a dozen pages of
garbage to finally find some idiot saying "I agree."

It is also recommended to suppress the parts of the previous message
that are not necessary to understand what you write.

In the military we teach that the important data should be put up front.

Smile. You are no longer in the military, you are on usenet.

That has always made sense to me.

Sense « in the military » ? Please, stop trolling.

--
DC

Top/Bottom posting
..
Molehill ------- Mountain
..
Charlie Jensen


Live right,
Eat right,
Exercise ... ... ... Die anyway !

1/23/2004 12:51 PM

Top/Bottom posting
.
Molehill ------- Mountain
.
Charlie Jensen

Mountain ------- Valley

Bob Ingraham

-------
I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt,
and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.
--John Steinbeck
-------




Live right,
Eat right,
Exercise ... ... ... Die anyway !

"Bob Ingraham" wrote in message
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1/23/2004 12:51 PM

Top/Bottom posting
.
Molehill ------- Mountain
.
Charlie Jensen

Mountain ------- Valley

Bob Ingraham

Valley ------- Forge

Scott out.

1/23/2004 3:24 PM


"Bob Ingraham" wrote in message
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1/23/2004 12:51 PM

Top/Bottom posting
.
Molehill ------- Mountain
.
Charlie Jensen

Mountain ------- Valley

Bob Ingraham

Valley ------- Forge


Scott out.

Forge ------- Forgery

Bob Ingraham

Military time - 0000 to 2359 -- makes a lot more sense than the way we keep
track of hours in the US.

Bill

PS To get back on a related topic, what stamps show time one way or
another? Postmarks used to.

"Didier Cuidet" wrote in message
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Sense « in the military » ? Please, stop trolling.

As I said in another thread, top vs. bottom posting is not something to get
very excited about. I can read what I want either way. It's usually easier
to follow a thread with top posts, IMHO. I know what the previous poster
said and I'm looking for the response, which is a bit easier and faster to
see if it's on top. Snipping the previous post, as I've done here, makes it
immaterial whether the reply is at the top or the bottom.
I just can't see how this top post makes "things unintelligible or difficult
for others."

Bill

"Peter Aitken" wrote in message
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This illustrates perfectly the selfishness and silliness of the *only*
argument that top-posters have ever been able to present for their
behavior.
"I am too lazy to do some scrolling - wears me right out to press that
PgDn
key 3 or 4 times! I don't care how much top posting makes things
unintelligible or difficult for others, I'm going to keep doing it *MY*
way."