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In article <6Q7ge.648$1A6.427@newssvr17.news.prodigy.com>,
doodles <tomfulton53nospammer@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Patrick Vervoorn" <patrick.vervoorn@NOSPAM.perihelion.demon.nl> wrote in
>message news:7d849$4280e600$82a1d3bf$13168@news1.tudelft.nl...
>> [Repeated here again, could you please bottom-post, just like I'm doing
>> here? With that out of the way, I'd be happy to answer your question]
>>
>> A High Rune. Generally runes from about Ohm - Zod, sometimes Vex is also
>> included, but since a Vex can be cubed from 4 Ists, it's not traded for
>> the same value as the higher runes.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Patrick.
>
>Since you were very polite and helpful, I'm bottom-posting my question: why
>do people like bottom posting better than top posting? I've always found it
>far less convenient...
Because that's what has been used on UseNet for ages. Also see Marcel's
response as for why it's not that logical to use top-posting: it messes up
the order in which you chronologically read through the past threads.
>for one thing, Outlook automatically positions my
>response at the top, and secondly I have to scroll down past lots of
>embedded quotes to get to the reply. I usually remember the essential
>content of the original post anyway. With my limited attention span, I
>usually want to get right to the meat of the reply, rather than have to
>scroll down to get to it. Again, thanks for your help...I was just curious
>about bottom- vs. top-posting.
First of all, Outlook is an abomination that, just like all the monsters
you encounter in Diablo 2, has to be wiped off the face of the earth. Get
a good news-reader. At least use something like Mozilla Thunderbird
(www.mozilla.org) for something that's better than Outlook.
Or if you want some more possibilities, looks at xnews (www.xnews.com/org,
IIRC).
Secondly, bottom-posting is only the start; it's also very much
appreciated if you trim your posts: i.e., cut out the original material
which is no longer relevant. Which is what I did with this post (compare
the stuff above with the post I reacted to.
So, the correct procedure is: Reply, Trim, Bottom-post. People will like
you much more for it, and you will notice you will get more polite replies
to about any question you post on the UseNet.
>I also noticed that Outlook just made the font smaller when I bottom
>posted, too, for completely inexplicable reasons.
That's Outlook for ya: a totally mysterious program which does whatever it
(or Bill Gates) wants. Switch to something else, your newsreading
experience will improve at lot. See above for some suggestions...
And thanks for taking the effort of bottom-posting, it's much appreciated.
Now to continue on the path of enlightenment!
Regards,
Patrick.