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"Bazza" <somewhere@somehow.ca> wrote in message 
news:Ix8Ri.15410$G25.685@edtnps89...
> Frank F. Matthews wrote:
>>
>>
>> Al Smith wrote:
>>
>>>> "Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message 
>>>> news:jfqQi.11311$G25.3392@edtnps89...
>>>>
>>>>>> >> Hey (mdmdmdm@nd.com) wrote:
>>>>>> >> : Either TOP post or bottom post.  Don't post in the middle and
>>>>>> : leave >> all the other shit behind.  Quit being a lazy shit!
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> ***   Middle posters are almost more evil than top posters,
>>>>>> especially
>>>>>> >> when they don't leave blank lines around their comments.
>>
>>
>>>>>> >>    A good posting method is to intersperse comments among
>>>>>> edited, quoted
>>>>>> >> text as a conversation would flow.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> Richard
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> PS: Please don't top (or middle) post.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >>    Thanks
>>
>>
>>>>> > Middle posting depends on the post you are replying to. If it is
>>>>> long and > contains a large number of small points, it's almost 
>>>>> necessary to space > the responses throughout the quoted text, instead 
>>>>> of putting them all at > the bottom, where they would overwhelm the 
>>>>> reader.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > -Al-
>>
>>
>>>> Besides.  I don't get the concept of 'posting police'.  Who determines 
>>>> the right way to post anyway?
>>
>>
>>> They are self-appointed, like the fashion police and the political 
>>> correctness police.
>>>
>>> The posting format is completely up to the person posting. But if they 
>>> don't want a lot of comments, they must stick more or less to the 
>>> established conventions.
>>>
>>> There are always nuts who post craziness that can't even be read. All 
>>> CAPS, no punctuation, rows of symbols, solid blocks of page-long text. I 
>>> don't even bother reading posts the formatting of which is far from the 
>>> norm. Generally, they contain no worthwhile content.
>>>
>>> Top posting is just laziness, for the most part. I believe the default 
>>> Windows news reader automatically positions the cursor at the top of 
>>> posts, and many people can't be bothered to change it. Or maybe some of 
>>> them feel that their one-line comment would get lost at the bottom of a 
>>> huge thread, which (naturally) they do not bother to trim.
>>>
>>> -Al-
>>
>>
>> Actually if you look rationally top posting make good sense.  The major 
>> advantages are two fold.  First, it locates the new information at the 
>> beginning of the message while retaining the message stream in a single 
>> document.  To me though another significant advantage is that it connects 
>> the identification of the person posting with the post in a convenient 
>> manner.  For example
>>
>> with top posting.
>>
>> Name 3
>> message 3
>>
>> name 2
>> message 2
>>
>> name 1 message 1
>>
>> with bottom posting
>>
>> name 3
>>
>> name 2
>>
>>  > name 1
>>
>>  >> message 1
>>
>>  >message 2
>>
>> message 3
>>
>> The first format makes much more sense.  If it were not for the 
>> irrational rants of the fashion police I would use it fairly 
>> consistently.  Alas the Neanderthals around get off into a major fit so I 
>> use the bad format for the most part.  Unless a rational poster is the 
>> one I am responding to.
>>
>> As a real dinosaur I have no idea why the Neanderthals get their knickers 
>> in such a twit but they do.
>>
>> I agree that middle posting sometimes makes sense in the situation you 
>> note.
>>
>>
>> As far as trimming of posts is concerned given the identifications I 
>> mention it is usually done so badly that unless line prefixes are 
>> carefully counted individuals often appear to have said something that is 
>> actually the responsibility of another.  Or it trims so much that you 
>> have no idea what the message is a response to without a long search thru 
>> the message tree.
> Yeah Frank...I too am a top poster. ( forgive this transgression )  I 
> can't wait to see Richard's response.  Yawn...

Its kind of true.  Most email threads I have seen professionally (and I get 
close to 1000 per month in my job) are formatted such that the latest 
addition is at the top.