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Koop wrote:
> I am with you guys, posting at the bottom makes no sense to me.  Why
> force me to scroll through all the previous posts, the posts I just
> read, to get to the new reply?  Get me to the new stuff quickly, so I
> like top posters.  I believe netiquette dictates that either top or
> bottom posting is O.K. as long as it remains consistent throughout a
> thread: if people have been bottom posting you should continue the
> convention, if people have been top posting do likewise.
> 
> Interesting debate...
> 
> Koop

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

Additional references --

http://fmf.fwn.rug.nl/~anton/topposting.html -- Anton Smit: "Why is 
Bottom-posting better than Top-posting
http://members.home.net/krobb7/quoting.html -- Ken Robbins - Quoting on Usenet
http://www.alt-html.org/index.html#usenet -- Brucie's alt.html General Information
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html -- zen and the art of 
the internet (usenet section)
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html -- Jukka Korpela presents Tobias 
Brox's Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
http://www.estreetjournal.com/cgi-local/dir/dir.cgi/Computers/Internet/Etiquette/ 
-- Netiquette links
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/ -- "rules" for posting to 
usenet
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html -- Richard Kettlewell: 
Quoting Style
http://www.html-faq.com/faq.php?clue=topposting -- alt.html FAQ reference on 
posting methods
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/ -- "How not to look like an idiot", 
What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html -- Netmeister: "How do I quote 
correctly in Usenet"
http://www.topfloor.com/pr/communities/ch3.htm -- TopFloor Publishing: Online 
communities - Participating effectively
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html -- G.McCaughan: 
The advantages of Usenet's quoting conventions
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html -- FAQ of Proper Quoting
http://www.windfalls.net/ukrm/postinghelp.html -- "Suggestions on how to post"
http://www.xs4all.nl/~wijnands/nnq/nquote.html -- news.newusers.questions FAQ



> 
> "Herb  Winston" <detectivhsd@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<DiDSa.13636$Mc.990396@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net>...
> 
>>Phil,
>>
>>I couldn't agree more. I've been top posting for what seems forever, & if
>>someone doesn't like it they can just ignore it or kill-file me. The same
>>goes for replying cross-posted (in this instance replying to a cross posted
>>message).
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>-- 
>>Herb Winston  AMA 50438
>>Bonita Springs, FL
>>
>>"He may look like an idiot,
>> and he may sound like an idiot,
>> but don't let him fool you.
>> He really is an idiot."
>>
>> Mark Twain
>>"Phil Weldon" <pweldon@mindspring.com> wrote in message
>>news:bfbjqf$rc$1@slb4.atl.mindspring.net...
>>
>>>First, my post was in no way a flame.  Second, for a technical newsgroup
>>
>> top
>>
>>>posting is much more efficient - you can go directly to the NEW
>>
>> information
>>
>>>without scrolling through the prior posts.  This is especially helpful
>>>because in many cases the prior post will be relatively lengthy while the
>>>reply will be relatively short.
>>>
>>>A flame usually has clear characteristics, one of which is making false
>>>unwarranted accusations.
>>>
>>>Phil Weldon, pweldon@mindspring.com
>>>
>>>"Michal Rosa" <mmrosaREMOVE@bigpond.UPPERnetCASE.au> wrote in message
>>>news:3F194136.1080007@bigpond.UPPERnetCASE.au...
>>>
>>>>Phil Weldon wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>First you should learn about cross-posting and why that is a bad idea;
>>>>
>> it is
>>
>>>>[...[
>>>>
>>>>Learn to bottom-post before you flame like that.
>>>>
>>>>-- 
>>>>Michal Rosa
>>>>This message was written entirely with 100% recycled electrons.
>>>>Now playing: Eric Clapton - Train Kept A Rollin'
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>