Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 01/17/07 00:26

"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.

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