Top posting to prove a point. Take a good long look at all the crap below you left on your mail, and I left on this one. That's a whole lot of nothing. Now I got to go down there and trim off the footer...
>Hi, Austin, I'm... >TOP-POSTING: >"Yeah, what HE said" ROFLMAO!!! You guys are really taking this to an extreme. > >Sorry, James, I suppose you'll consider this a one-line worthless comment. And >indeed, in this >case, it IS! :-) >Smiling after an evening of reading all this nonsense! > >Jane > > >--- Austin Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi James, >> >> > ALL lists I'm on prefer bottom posting with tight cropping of >> > quoted materials. >> >> I am on probably 20 lists, a majority of them camera lists. This is the >> only list where anyone has brought up the "netiquette" of bottom-posting. >> Every other mailing list I'm on doesn't care, and it's never been brought >> up, even though the majority (like %90++) are top posted. >> >> > Much as you see me doing here. It just makes sense. >> >> It makes sense to you, I believe you believe that, but not to me, and quite >> a few others. And, BTW, I believe it's UseNet netiquette, as in newsgroups. >> I'm not sure it is officially a mailing list netiquette. And, because it >> was once netiquette doesn't make it right or wrong, or mean it shouldn't >> change. >> >> > You just have to look at top posted messages to see >> > that they're >> > bloated wastes of bandwidth and lazy people's posting. >> >> I'm not sure what you have for an Internet connection, but for most people I >> know, bandwidth isn't an issue. It's miniscule, compared to streaming video >> etc. which will consume far far far more bandwidth than any mailing list >> post will. It's also not necessarily "lazy". >> >> > In general >> > I don't even >> > both reading them as I feel most top posters have nothing important to >> > contribute anyway. >> >> That is your loss then. >> >> > These are the people who spit out one quick >> > line and send it >> > without any thought. >> >> You're making a general statement that you simply can not make. Though it >> may be true of *some* posters, but you can't conclude that about all. It's >> like saying anyone who doesn't wear a tie is not serious. >> >> > Let me put it this way: if you're going to take a few seconds of >> > your precious >> > time to post something, do it right. >> >> Well, to me, right would be top-posting. I'm no more right or wrong than >> you are for having my opinion on the matter. IMO, bottom-posting is a >> relic, and less "effective" than top posting. >> >> > ... your posts will be read by more people and >> > understood better. >> >> How do you know? You make what come across as elitist claims, but I see no >> evidence that supports your claims. Is there a study that you can point to >> that confirms this? >> >> Personally, I tend to read the posts of certain people who have earned my >> respect, no matter if they top or bottom or side of front or back post. I >> also avoid or pay little attention to other people...but I give everyone >> whom I don't know well enough a chance by reading what they have to say, and >> make my judgments from that. >> >> > Just because you're on some lists where everyone top posts, does >> > not make it >> > right. >> >> And just because you may think top posting is "wrong", does not make it >> wrong. >> >> Regards, >> >> Austin > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Need Mail bonding? >Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! Answers users. >http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396546091 -- Jim Davis, Owner, Eastern Beaver Company: http://easternbeaver.com/ Motorcycle Relay Kits, Modulator Kits, Powerlet, Centech, Posi-Lock, Parts. 1988 K100RS SE ABS in Japan. 1991 ST1100 in America. STOC#6327, IBMWR, KBMW * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
