From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1633 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ruhl@4dv.net (Robert Uhl ) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: top & bottom posting Date: 18 Dec 2002 11:14:08 -0700 Message-ID: References: <84znr6s2dr.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> <87n0n52yb1.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org> <87el8h2g5b.fsf@kuntu.zangpo.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668351 12132 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:45:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:45:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news01.chello.no!amsnews01.chello.com!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!nntp2.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.4dv.net!news.4dv.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 12:14:08 -0600 Original-Sender: ruhl@latakia.dyndns.org Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.7.170.6 Original-X-Trace: sv3-1XRLc7diKN7YvOPNfE9W2dGyd8ym93/7JifssI7IlMN8/ToengrUhRsNZv4rC86EcqCPtm+R+DHb0Xt!YrbixzaL+JD9JX9K5ITCxPj+M0VREoabdrtsdOzuqU6BaCdNPWpKEVv4D+E77L3T0ds= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@4dv.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@4dv.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 X-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:14:09 MET (news01.chello.no) Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1773 Original-Lines: 24 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1773 Tue Jan 17 17:29:27 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1633 Archived-At: Dave Bennett writes: > > Maybe you enjoy playing with the mouse or changing windows to press > page down, but I do not. I do not either--which is why I trim my quotes to the bare amount necessary. > Top posting allows me to immediately see responses to the discussion > at hand. Without context. E.g., had it not been for the fact that I know what you're responding to, your comment would make no sense--it would appear to be apropos to nothing. But, but quoting a relevant item of text, my replies are understood in the context they were made. > I never read bottom posted responses at all. That's a pity, as that means you must not read 11/12ths of the responses out there. -- Robert Uhl I'm talking RFCs where you're talking Microsoft. --Alan J. Rosenthal