Posted by AnthonyR on 01/17/07 14:22

"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.

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