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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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 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-

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