Re: Canuck57, Learn how to post

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From: Al Smith
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:20

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>>> >> 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-
> 
> Often the posting police use TIN, straight out of the computer Dark Age.
> 
> 

Sounds like someone I know.

-Al-

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