Re: bottom posting

From: David Postill (david_at_postill.org.uk)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 01:40:27 GMT

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In article <paIKb.2887$hh.2011@bignews4.bellsouth.net>, on Tue, 06 Jan 2004 19:14:32 -0500, Jim
<me@mail.com> wrote:

| It appears people are going to start top posting to make my life easier.

Which people would those be?
 
| Therefore, I am giving up and will start bottom posting. I would still
| prefer everyone top post so I wouldnt have to scroll in my preview pane,
| but I know you all arent perfect. ;)

Actually those of us who bottom post are perfect:

1/ We have configured our newsreaders correctly so that threads are
   easy to follow, people are quoted correctly and are sigs are compliant
   with the standard.

2/ We conform to commonly accepted netiquette:

  http://www.ptialaska.net/~kmorgan/nquote.html
  http://www.zedtoo.demon.co.uk/jcode/basic.html
  http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.3
  http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
  http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm
  http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_chr0.htm
  http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
  http://www.spfc.org/band/faq.html?faq_id=10

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