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Posted by Bob on 11/04/05 13:43
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 21:04:19 GMT, NunYa Bidness
<nunyabidness@nunyabidness.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:08:30 GMT, spam@uce.gov (Bob) Gave us:
>
>>On Thu, 3 Nov 2005 07:10:48 -0800, "Richard C."
>><post-age@spamcop.net> wrote:
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>>>There is no VALID reason NOT to top post in this day and age.
>>>
>>>Get over it.
>>
>>There are several very good reasons not to top post on a Usenet forum.
>>
>>You get over it.
>
> There is only two that should be examined closely.
>
>A) a modicum of order
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>B) agreement to diplomatically follow protocol, instead of casting
>everything out like a punk.
>
> A third would be natural chronology... naturally.
I would add "courtesy" to the list.
When someone top posts, they force the reader to go fishing thru the
content below. That is a real nuisance.
Snip the irrelevant crap and put your response below the relevant
content. Keep only two generations of previous content at most.
--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
-- George Bernard Shaw
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