Re: newsgroup security?

From: Alan J. Flavell (flavell_at_mail.cern.ch)
Date: 05/24/03 

Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 18:19:55 +0200

On Sat, May 24, Alun Jones [MS MVP] quotes from a posting which
my newsreader filter had mercifully screened from my view:

> >Is bottom posting an unwritten preference in newsgroups?

Unwritten? Certainly not. You read all about it in the new user
FAQs, e.g at http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/nquote.html

> > If yes why does
> >what is without a doubt the most widely distributed reader in the world set
> >up to top post?
>
> Oh, I don't know, perhaps because the people that wrote it were new to
> Usenet?

As another newsgroup's FAQ helpfully put it: OE puts the cursor at the
top of the quoted material, because that's where you want it to be in
order to start trimming the extraneous quotage before you add your own
responses.

cheers 

-- 
  "seems to work" is not a good way develop programs.  You should probably
  define your specs in more detail.  -   John W. Krahn on comp.lang.perl.misc

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