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except i have to scroll to the bottom every time I get a new message.
that's a pain.
Also Usenet is not one way or the other. it is a mixture.
Also if I scroll down I can see that Republicans
Looked for WMD - That didn't work
Captured Saddam Hussein - That didn't help
Disparaged those who questioned - That didn't wash
Gave families a big proud feeling in exchange for a dead soldier /football
player- That didn't stop them.
Re-package their rationale each month. - That doesn't surprise anyone.
If we spend enough money and lives, eventually the Muslims will like us!
"twobirds" <notareal@eaddy.com> wrote in message
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> "Hard Plop" <stork@nospam_that is really my domain.com> wrote in message
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> > Why is that the bottom posters are always trying to change the rest of
us?
>
> It is the other way around. Sorry to be the one to break the news to you.
> You've obviously just found usenet recently ... or possibly, you are just
a
> wanking troll. Usenet is not the www Usenet is not an http message
board.
> Usenet isn't email. Usenet is usenet. Usenet threads are read top to
> bottom. Outlook Express treats them wrongly, but one can whip OE into
> submission so that it all makes sense.
>
>
> > Are these people also republicans?
>
> Again, you have it backwards. Democrats are the ones who want everyone to
> be socialist conformists.
>
> >
> > Oh wait. That's bottom feeders.
>
> Let's try to at least try to tie your thread to the topic of the news
group:
> At the end of a movie or other video production, you might notice credits
> rolling. When credits roll, do they roll from bottom to top or from top
to
> bottom? Of course, they roll from bottom to top. Why is that? It is to
> have you read some information before other information. How does this
> pertain to a threaded message? Check the headers of any random reply in
any
> news group. You will see that there is a header called "References".
That
> is to show what to tie the reply to. This is how replies are threaded
into
> what you see displayed. On usenet, "bottom posting" is done so that
> threaded conversations make sense to the reader. If you visit some of the
> older Big-8 groups, you might find threads that have gone on for months
and
> that reach into the thousands of messages. If you want to make sense of
it
> all, you would have to start at the beginning and read every single
message
> if everyone top posted. As it is when people post properly while
> understanding threading, you can pick out just a few messages to see what
> was said and what the replies were. In fact, you can even make sense of
it
> if you pick out just a few favorite authors.
>
> One must read some information to understand the replies. Usenet is
simple.
>
>
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