hello,
would any kind soul explain what is top posting, since i dont have www
access. to reply to a post, i open it in the outlook express and click
reply group and that's all. what the top posting all about..?
Kind Regards,
Ravishankar
Aug 13 '07
48  1774 
Chris Saunders wrote:
I'm top-posting, but not being thoughtless in my own opinion.
However, I consider the advise given below to be good advice except
for the part about replying below. If following a thread, I find
top-posted or interspersed responses much preferable. My 2 pennies
worth.
*plonk*
Brian gw****@aol.com wrote:
Even more depressing is reading posts by people who say "don't top
post" but don't say what top posting is. The next response is almost
always the same person again, asking "what is top posting?" - in a top
posted reply.
I agree with that. Often the offender is confused and thinks it refers
to where the post appears in the thread.
Brian
In article <5i************ *@mid.individua l.net>,
Default User <de***********@ yahoo.comwrote:
>Chris Saunders wrote:
>I'm top-posting, but not being thoughtless in my own opinion.
However, I consider the advise given below to be good advice except
for the part about replying below. If following a thread, I find
top-posted or interspersed responses much preferable. My 2 pennies
worth.
*plonk*
Brian
Awwww. Now you've gone and hurt his feelings. Sob...
Default User wrote:
>
gw****@aol.com wrote:
Even more depressing is reading posts by people who say "don't top
post" but don't say what top posting is. The next response is almost
always the same person again,
asking "what is top posting?" - in a top
posted reply.
I agree with that. Often the offender is confused and thinks it refers
to where the post appears in the thread.
I have noticed it happening a lot, also.
--
pete
"Default User" <de***********@ yahoo.comwrites :
Chris Saunders wrote:
>I'm top-posting, but not being thoughtless in my own opinion.
However, I consider the advise given below to be good advice except
for the part about replying below. If following a thread, I find
top-posted or interspersed responses much preferable. My 2 pennies
worth.
*plonk*
Brian
You are outdoing yourself with your wonderful contribution. Well done!
Chris Saunders said:
I'm top-posting, but not being thoughtless in my own opinion.
However, I consider the advise given below
....to be in a place that isn't *HERE*, so I have to go look for it
elsewhere before I can find out what you mean. That costs me time that
you could easily have saved me. I deduce that your reply was
thoughtless and inconsiderate. It doesn't earn you a plonk, not by
itself, but it certainly mods you down.
--
Richard Heathfield <http://www.cpax.org.uk >
Email: -www. +rjh@
Google users: <http://www.cpax.org.uk/prg/writings/googly.php>
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29 July 1999
In article <pa************ *********@irq.o rg>,
Ivar Rosquist <IR*******@irq. orgwrote:
> I agree with your views on this. What I don't like are the self-
appointed network policemen, whose kneejerk reaction is just to condemn
top posting, without qualifications, as though top-posting were something
intrinsicall y evil.
Top-posting is inherently *selfish* -- it assumes that people are
focused on that particular thread and have seen and remembered
what has gone before. It might be fine for people who only read
the occasional posting, but it is unworkable for busy people
with many different things to track, especially for busy people who
read hundreds of messages a day.
I've been hitting over 5000 threads per day lately: if -you- had
listened to 5000 different conversations today, and another 5000
tomorrow, and two days from now someone went ahead and continued one of
the conversations as if there hadn't been any interruption, would -you-
be able to pick up immediately, or would you have to say, "Hold on!
Give me the background context to this before you start in on the
continuation!" ?
What kind of people read hundreds or thousands of messages a day
(and understand them)? Oddly enough, such people tend to be the
people with a lot of experience -- exactly the kind of person you
hope might answer questions or provide a clarification/correction
if one is necessary. So if you hope that the experienced posters
will contribute to a thread if warranted, then you should make it
easy for them to do so -- by *not* top-posting!
--
I was very young in those days, but I was also rather dim.
-- Christopher Priest
In article <iy************ @homelinux.net> , Richard <rg****@gmail.c omwrote:
>"Default User" <de***********@ yahoo.comwrites :
>Chris Saunders wrote:
>>I'm top-posting, but not being thoughtless in my own opinion.
However, I consider the advise given below to be good advice except
for the part about replying below. If following a thread, I find
top-posted or interspersed responses much preferable. My 2 pennies
worth.
*plonk*
Brian
You are outdoing yourself with your wonderful contribution. Well done!
This is the A-material, guys. For Mr. Default Loser, it don't get any
better than this!
I was not interpreting the message I included in my post as meaning
"bottom-post". I didn't intersperse my reply as I considered it unneccesary
since it was short and if you have been following this thread you may have
already known its contents.
Regards
Chris Saunders
"Al Balmer" <al******@att.n etwrote in message
news:mk******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:17:44 -0400, "Chris Saunders"
<ev**@mountainc able.netwrote:
I think, for most people here, "Don't top-post" does *not* mean
"bottom-post." If you had interspersed your reply, as most recommend,
you might have discovered that Richard was saying that, in his second
paragraph. In addition, neither you nor I would be confused about your
reference to "the part about replying below." I've left Richard's
message so that you can easily contemplate where your comments should
have gone.
--
Al Balmer
Sun City, AZ
Top-posting is certainly not inherently selfish - some consider it
preferable. If you view a large number of newsgroups you will find plenty
wher it is the most common form.
Regards
Chris Saunders
Top-posting is inherently *selfish* -- it assumes that people are
focused on that particular thread and have seen and remembered
what has gone before. It might be fine for people who only read
the occasional posting, but it is unworkable for busy people
with many different things to track, especially for busy people who
read hundreds of messages a day.
I've been hitting over 5000 threads per day lately: if -you- had
listened to 5000 different conversations today, and another 5000
tomorrow, and two days from now someone went ahead and continued one of
the conversations as if there hadn't been any interruption, would -you-
be able to pick up immediately, or would you have to say, "Hold on!
Give me the background context to this before you start in on the
continuation!" ?
What kind of people read hundreds or thousands of messages a day
(and understand them)? Oddly enough, such people tend to be the
people with a lot of experience -- exactly the kind of person you
hope might answer questions or provide a clarification/correction
if one is necessary. So if you hope that the experienced posters
will contribute to a thread if warranted, then you should make it
easy for them to do so -- by *not* top-posting!
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