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> "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
>>> >>
>>> >> R.
>> >
>> >
>> > 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-