On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:18:47PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:29:03 +0200 > Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ..top posting will usually cause considerable irritation, especially > > for people who pay for their bandwidth, when some idiot go "Me too!!!" > > on top of a meg of uselessly formatted quotes, in an non-Wintendo list, > > Actually, as far as irritation is concerned, I find having to scroll down > through large amounts of un-snipped text just to find a "me too" at the > end more irritating than if it had been top-posted on an un-snipped > message. The normal convention only works well when people snip and reply > to the relevant bits underneath.
When the 'me too!' is top posted I often overlook it since I'm expecting a 'so-and-so wrote one mm-dd-yyy' line to come first. Also, when quoted text follows a top post, you often *still* scroll to the end to make sure there is no additional new info. > It's non-snipping that's the real problem. It seems virtually to be the > norm in many non-computer usenet groups. True. -- "If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible." -- Henry David Thoreau Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]