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Posted by Bill Vermillion on 01/29/07 21:05
In article <45ae3132$0$5188$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
AnthonyR <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
>"Gene E. Bloch" <hamburger@NOT_SPAM.invalid> wrote in message
>news:Xns98BAA7471EA51Astrolabe@127.0.0.1...
[mucho deleted - wjv]
>> 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.
And one of the methods that was most prefered in the earlier days,
and still works well, is in-line posting - answering each
paragraph or line as appropiate - so it flows more like a
converstation.
>> 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.
I recall that even then it was best to post inline [prefered] or
bottom. I just checked the Netiquette file [RFC-1855] and the only
reference to the way you should post is to not include the whole
message in a reply but to include only enough to make it
understandable.
And in 1985 - when I was running a usenet node - the entire
flow was between 6 and 10 megabytes a day. When it got to
100MB/day many dropped the binary groups, and one newbie
from a University raised a lot of hackles when he posted
a 1MB audio file. Seems pretty strange in the world of 2007.
>> --
>> 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! :)
Pushing Usenet news around - primarily by UUCP over phones - except
for two large local engineering groups who had a 56 line - most of
us in the Orlando area moved to Telebit modems that gave us
18Kbit/sec transfer rates [later about 22Kb] long before the
first 9600 bps modem was available for sale. Since we all had
registered UUCP domain names we got them at 1/2 price at $650 each.
The next year I saw my first 9600 BPS modem. From BT [British
Telecom] . $5000 US.
Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com
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