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A broken wire would be great. I'll look for that this weekend.
Thanks a bunch.
Glenn
TOP (illogical reading) - not related to Jeff Strickland are you
glenn wrote:
BOTTOM (logical reading)
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"DCA" a écrit dans le message de news: LLa9k.95210$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe20.ams...
Yes? What do you need?
Well, when that happens, the common ettiquite is to continue posting the same way as everybody else, even if you think everybody else is wrong.
And, why get on my case because I use OE? It makes far more sense to get on you for being anal retentive.
I read the post, then click Reply and start typing. I am blessed with a small amount of retention, and I can remember most of what I read and Reply without having to read it all over again. I don't need to read the post AFTER I click Reply because I read it before ...
You can't even post properly, and you have the nerve to get all over me for top posting.
Please crawl back under your rock ...
Does it need one to be considerate? It seems some do?
get a life or die
----- Original Message ----- From: "DCA" Newsgroups: alt.autos.bmw Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 3:31 PM Subject: Re: Central locking problem / question
QED.
Really? Oh - and my rock is bought and paid for - inside right now.
But you're not quoting posts for yourself only - it's for others to follow your points without referring back...
That assumes others are not getting the same posts I am getting. My assumption is that everybody gets the same posts, and if ALL REPLIES are either top posted or bottom posted, following along is easy. When the Replies are mixed top and bottom, then it gets very ugly very fast.
Personally, I don't care if the Replies are top posted or bottom posted, as long as all Replies are the same in any given thread. I can follow the pattern, and if you can't then maybe Usenet is not a place you should be visiting.
Not everybody gets the same posts you are getting, and they don't get them in the same order or with with same sequence numbers. There are
70,000 Usenet servers around the world and they are all configured a little differently and all get their feed a little differently.Top-posting is generally considered rude, in part because it was introduced by AOL bozos when AOL joined Usenet, but in part because it discourages proper trimming of replies. Remember that Usenet was developed in a world where bandwidth was much more expensive than it is today, and most of the Usenet traditions reflect that.
--scott
Which isn't the case. Different news suppliers sometimes don't always send in the same order. And some may join a thread after the start. If you assume *everyone* is conversant with the previous posts and gets everything in the correct order quoting simply becomes a waste of time.
Two points. As I said if you need to refer to the previous stuff most read from top to bottom. In English, certainly. And if you wish to interleave points as I'm doing then there can only be one way of posting - ie old at the top new at the bottom.
Well, I've been around since it was a relatively slow and expensive medium. And the entire world still doesn't get free fast connections. The fact is MS chose to break the bottom posting convention with their newsreader - and I've no real idea why. Other than like in so much not really understanding or caring how their customers use things. It makes sense to top post for personal emails - after all you can assume the person reading it knows the previous content of your correspondence - and including a copy is just a courtesy, or can be omitted anyway. News groups ain't the same thing.
Jeff for moderator.
NTTAWWT.
Top and bottom posted.
Nobody ...
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