What happened to top posting here?

Posting is like a roll of toilet paper some install it so it puss out from the top and others install it so it pulls from the bottom however, the end result is the same your butt gets wiped.

HarryS

I hear ya. Good thing I only use scroll mice, to scroll through a page and a half of quote just to read the one word reply. This is the point where someone will chime and and say that the way they read the news either through a program or via the web isn't nested so they need to see the original message before reading the reply. To that I say, get a real newsreader dipshit...there are better ways to do it.

Top posting shouldn't be done because it's rude. The convention was set long before your newsreader was written. We COULD drive on the left side of the road, and have steering wheels on the right side, but those conventions later became law in the USA. There will be no law on the usenet, but if you ignore convention you will be thought of by others as being lazy, ignorant, ill-mannered, or all three.

Welcome to the newsgroup rec.autos.makers.jeep+willys.top-or-bottom

Long ago the regulars here figured out that there were a finite number of arguments one could make about wheither it was better to top-post or to bottom-post but that in the end none of them ever solved anything, so to save a lot of time spent typing, downloading and reading all the way around they simply assigned numbers to each reason. Even-numbered arguments are pro-top posting, odd-numbers arguments are pro-bottom posting or interleaved responses. It works like this:

OP: Top-posting is good! Bottom-posting is Evil!

1R: 2! 2R: 7, ya f****it. OP: 4, 6 3R: Oh, come on, surely 3 and 11, no? 4R: When in Rome: 3 and 4. 2R: 12 _and_ 20. Yugo-driving panty-waist. 3R: When I started, 1, out of wood; 9, in the snow, both ways. 4R: Whatever. Aren't we here to talk Jeeps? 2R: 19, and learn to trim. 3R> Get a real 15, 17, 21. 5R: Hydrogen is the fuel of the future! 6R,3R,OP,4R: Troll! 7R: Top-posting is evil! Bottom-posting is Good! 4R: Oh, fark. Are we doing top-posting/bottom-posting again? 1R: 2! 8R: 7, you fuckwitt.

-- "I defer to your plainly more vivid memories of topless women with whips....r" R. H. Draney recalls AFU in the Good Old Days.

Well, the trouble with gear heads is that we are a rather schitzophrenic bunch.

We will post on the top or the bottom. Kind of makes it hard to follow ...

Not in the Jeep NGs. We have more common sense than this. Calling most of us rude is quite rude indeed. Tomes

Paul:

When in Rome, do as the Romans.

The polite thing to do is to read a particular newsgroup for a few days and see what is the "norm" for that newsgroup. On this newsgroup, most people top post, which I find much easier to read. No unnecessary long scrolling.

Whether top or bottom posting, the correct way is to clip most of the unnecessary text from the previous posts in your reply. That really makes posts much easier to read, either way.

Tom

I think the best way is to do a

combination of both so everyone is happy!

No,

griffin proclaimed:

What you really should do

...is post the new content randomly all over the old stuff

... so new readers have no prayer of being able to

...figure out what the heck the

...thread is about.

that this may

become confusing

especially if I randomly cut and paste

parts of the old message in different spots.

HomeBrewer did pass the time by typing:

.. erm.. .. motherboards.

Radioshack CoCo (16k 68E09) grey case Dell 310 (386-20) (in the attic) Scratch built (486 DX2 66) Scratch built (Celeron 400 SuperMicro) This box (P 2.9Mhz Asus)

Jeep parts.

Engine and tranny mounts (old) Harmonic Balancer (old) Spark plugs (even couple dozen used) .. Ya know, I need to clean this pile up .. Spare rim and tire glass jar full of "extra parts" from other projects. Old exhaust header with big smiley crack in it Assorted filters, oils, etc. Jeep bag (but it's holding computer parts)

Definitely Jeepster parts, I only have 5 computers, but I am capable of doing more than one thing properly.

Get a newsreader that has the option to skip to first unquoted when opening a message. Less hassle that starting another holy war about where to post and wastes a helluva lot less bandwidth.

Heck OE works fine if you install OE-QuoteFix.

DougW proclaimed:

O K

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T h a t ' s

c o o l

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Y'all understand what I'm saying?

T h a t ' s

c o o l

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Y'all understand what I'm saying?