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On 2005-04-08 16:43:15 -0500, "Paul Dunn" <paul.dunn4@ntlworld.com> said:
> sardu wrote:
>
>> 1) WTF is "posting on top"? All I did was respond to a post
>> 2) Puzzle games: Polarium, Zoo Keeper , Pac-Pix , Yoshi Touch &
>> Go , WarioWare: Touched , Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
>
> "Posting on top", or as it's more commonly known: "Top posting" is what
> you just did, and I - for example - did not. It's common practice to
> use manners when conversing, and putting your replies *after* the quote
> you're replying to is considered good manners.
>
> Unfortunately both Outlook Express and Google's GMail get it the wrong
> way round, and put your cursor at the top of the message, thus
> encouraging you to just type away and hit "send" without putting any
> thought in. Fortunately though, it only takes a second or two to move
> to the bottom (or wherever is appropriate) and type there instead.
>
> Many, many people get very annoyed at this "top posting" behaviour. The
> person who you replied to posted correctly - at the end. You replied at
> the top, and anyone wanting to see what you replied to would have had
> to scroll all the way down to the bottom - which is another point:
>
> Quoting. In general, you should only include enough of the previous
> message to get a context of what you're talking about. Both you (and
> the poster you replied) to failed to snip the larger amount of
> now-irrelevant text, which forces you to scroll through a lot of dross
> to get to the meat of the message. Had you bottom-posted as you should,
> you'd still have to scroll due to the large amount on unnecessary text
> you didn't snip out.
>
> The exchange should have looked something like this:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> "Inferno" <magicmonster@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
> news:4250ed84$0$48343$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl...
>
>> 1. Don't post on top
>> 2. You tell me how many puzzle games are out for the DS
>
> 1) WTF is "posting on top"? All I did was respond to a post
> 2) Puzzle games: Polarium, Zoo Keeper , Pac-Pix , Yoshi Touch & Go ,
> WarioWare: Touched , Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> You can see that because the message has been properly snipped, you
> don't need to scroll through. And your reply now makes sense - his
> questions appear *before* your answers, as they would do in a real
> conversation.
>
> This means that anyone coming along to the thread anew would be able to
> pick up the gist of what's going on with little difficulty, whereas
> with no snipping and "top posting" you can quickly become lost.
> Although many people do find top-posting to be annoying, the people who
> do it tend to believe that it doesn't matter - mostly because *they*
> know what they're on about. These sorts of people don't think of others.
>
> So decide which you want to be - do you want to top post? do you want
> to trim your quotes or not? do you want to bottom post? If you choose
> to snip correctly and bottom post, you'll not get flamed for it. If you
> top-post and don't snip, then you'll likely find that wherever you go
> someone will whine at you.
>
> I don't advocate either way for *you* - I have my preferences and stick
> to them (even though I use OE), but I wouldn't want to force them on
> anyone else. However, the excuse for not sticking to the "etiquette"
> that has been established since UseNet was born - simply because your
> choice of newsreader encourages you to ignore those guidelines - is no
> excuse at all really.
>
> Now watch as this sparks off another top vs bottom posting argument
>
> D.
Gee, thanks.
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