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Article #47Re: Canuck57, Learn how to post
From: Richard Bonner
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:44
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:44
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Al Smith (invalid@address.com) wrote: : 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. *** The cursor is positioned at the top so that the writer can read through the quoted text and edit it before commenting. It is the correct position and should not be changed : 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- *** Which of course forces readers to slog through all that untrimmed quoted text to determine to what that one-line comment refers. )-: Richard
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X-Google-Thread: fbdd9,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Thread: 103607,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Thread: f504b,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Thread: 112f74,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Thread: 1046d3,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Thread: 109a5e,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Thread: 1083bf,f9aa67f2e4bd428d X-Google-Attributes: gidfbdd9,gid103607,gidf504b,gid112f74,gid1046d3,gid109a5e,gid1083bf,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.tiscali.fr!club-internet.fr!feedme-small.clubint.net!feeder.news-service.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed1.tudelft.nl!surfnet.nl!surfnet.nl!news.wind.surfnet.nl!News.Dal.Ca!halifax!ak621 From: ak621@chebucto.ns.ca (Richard Bonner) Newsgroups: hfx.general,rec.travel.usa-canada,can.general,ab.general,soc.culture.canada,calgary.general,van.general Subject: Re: Canuck57, Learn how to post Followup-To: hfx.general,rec.travel.usa-canada,can.general,ab.general,soc.culture.canada,calgary.general,van.general Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Chebucto Community Net Lines: 20 Message-ID: <fevnb8$r71$8@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca> References: <OMEPi.18142$1y4.9391@pd7urf2no> <470f9d56$0$14879$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <p28vg3dno2kn4dsn19b51dde81vklb8dl4@4ax.com> <470fcedf$0$14866$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <QCTPi.31934$1y4.22927@pd7urf2no> <47100d64$0$14834$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net><OmUPi.32426$th2.4383@pd7urf3no> <Mw3Qi.36036$th2.21231@pd7urf3no> <fl5Qi.35040$1y4.32223@pd7urf2no> <471123fb$0$14880$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <47112d5f$0$14844$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net> <DebQi.33354$Da.14949@pd7urf1no> <47114fc4$0$14861$9a566e8b@news.al <fet61t$ssk$21@Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca> <jfqQi.11311$G25.3392@edtnps89> <kWqQi.10279$GO5.4749@edtnps90> <larQi.11317$G25.2873@edtnps89> NNTP-Posting-Host: chebucto.ns.ca X-Trace: Kil-nws-1.UCIS.Dal.Ca 1192452264 27873 192.75.95.75 (15 Oct 2007 12:44:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@dal.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:44:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]