Posted by WinField on 01/16/07 17:12

1. bathing and top-posting is the future.
2. Usenet used to be run by hemmoroidal control freaks.
3. if you can't carry a thought from one message to the next Tim,
tough toe-nails.

You want to be a bottom-feeder? Fine. I am free to communicate in the
manner I find most efficient. Now chill out.

- Winfield


Tim Smith wrote:
> In article <45ac6cdf$0$4882$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
> Barry Watzman <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
>>Well at least you acknowledge that it is, in fact, my choice.
>>
>
>
> Sure. And it would be your choice to stop bathing. But that would
> violate social convention, and many people would shun you. It's the
> same with your posting style.
>
> 25 years of social convention on usenet have established the style of
> quoting what you reply to, with your comments inserted, directly
> following what they are in reply to, as the norm. This norm developed
> because basically everyone who considered the problem concluded that it
> was the most effective way to communicate, taking into account the
> nature of usenet.
>
> You are basically telling the world that your thoughts are so important,
> you don't need to try to effectively communicate them. You can instead
> use a style this is annoying to read, and the rest of us should go to
> the extra effort of coping if we want to benefit from your wise words.
>

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