Newsgroup Rant, Just a Little One... (ot)

Nov 26, 2006 6 Replies

Well, I have become so bored with all this stuff lately that I have stopped reading any post with the reply at the bottom. Not going to scroll down through five replies to get there...


While I agree with you, somehow usenet netiquette demands bottom posting. I've gotten into more pissing contests to no avail so I try to accommodate everyone. Imagine hearing that from me!

JT

(Always swimming upstream...)

Jeff Rice wrote:

There is a pissing and moaning string on the Nikon Yahoo group about scrolling down etc. Seems a lot of guys use a signature longer than their message. One guy lists all his awards for being a photographer, his phone numbers, his degrees, his list of associations he belongs to, and other credentials. Funny...........as far as I can tell, anyone could do better with an Instamatic than he does.

group for "top-posting." Maybe I should spilt and make all unhappy!

Me three.

As an experiment, I deleted all but your last sentence. See how that reads. Maybe we could delete all the earlier stuff when we reply and it would be on top.

I use Thunderbird and an extension called QuoteCollapse, it makes all of the older parts of a newsgroup posting vanish behind a + symbol.

p.d.

Jeff Rice wrote:

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