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Posted by Bill's News on 01/17/07 17:28
AnthonyR wrote:
> "Gene E. Bloch" <hamburger@NOT_SPAM.invalid> wrote in message
> news:Xns98BAA7471EA51Astrolabe@127.0.0.1...
>> "AnthonyR" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
>> news:45ad4f0e$0$7678$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
>>
>>>
>>> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
>>> news:45acfbc9$0$11136$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
>>>> No, I claim to take joy in pissing off self-appointed
>>>> Internet
>>>> Nazis like you.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> MassiveProng wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:12:41 -0500, Barry Watzman
>>>>> <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> Gave us:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well at least you acknowledge that it is, in fact, my
>>>>>> choice.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> So, you CHOOSE to be a TOFU retard? How quaint... NOT!
>>>
>>> Once again, it's lack of standards in software, I've never
>>> used a
>>> newsreader besides Outlook express (which most don't even
>>> consider
>>> a newsreader) so I personally don't understand how bottom
>>> posting
>>> is easier, since I click down the row and just read one
>>> reply
>>> after the other, Never having to re-read the question again,
>>> and
>>> avoid having to scroll.
>>>
>>> But....apparently, real newsreader software DON'T function
>>> like
>>> this? I never tried another program. So top posting is
>>> counter
>>> intuitive to how the original system was designed to be used
>>> and
>>> read. Correct? So since bottom posting has been standard
>>> since
>>> beginning, it's Microsoft that is to blame for making
>>> Outlook
>>> Express would differently and causing never ending arguments
>>> ever
>>> since on news servers all over the world ever since.
>>>
>>> That is exactly why I decided to just bottom post, as I
>>> said, no
>>> one EVER criticized me for bottom posting.
>>> Something to think about. But we love to blame Bill, LOL
>>>
>>> Couldn't a program be written that automatically moves the
>>> reply
>>> to top or bottom depending on preference?
>>>
>>> AnthonyR.
>>
>> It's not the software, since you can just hit Ctrl-Home to go
>> to the
>> top or Ctrl-End to go to the bottom - it's merely a
>> convention that
>> some people think is part of Usenet. Newsreaders position
>> your
>> cursor where the programmer thinks it belongs, not always at
>> the
>> bottom; however, some newsreaders are configurable by the
>> user.
>>
>> IIRC, before around 1985, people tended to top post. It makes
>> reading a thread much easier when you are stuck with a
>> s-l-o-w text-
>> mode newsreader on a s-l-o-w connection - which is pretty
>> much all
>> there was back then.
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) ... letters617blochg3251
>> (replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")
>
> Gino,
> Once again, Thanks. I didn't know that, but makes sense as
> dial up
> systems were really slow back then.
> I remember my first 300 baud modem, yikes! And it followed
> Moore's
> Law, (thanks Martin), 600, then 1200, 2400, 5600 all the way
> to 56k.
> And prices kept dropping also, so we kept buying them every 6
> months!
> :)
>
> AnthonyR.
It would have been miraculous to top post on a teletype!!
And that is where this mind set is stuck!
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