I honestly do not know of any ISP anymore that charges by the minute, but I
can see the part about the phoneline stuff.

OTOH, if you feel like that's a legitimate issue, then cutting out content
is the way to go. But then you'll be accused of doing that too. Seems like
a no-win circumstance.

If people feel like they don't care to respond to a poster, then it's their
prerogative. But by also crying about netiquette may cause others to not
bother posting at all because they'll be concerned about breaking some
"rule".


"The Cook" wrote in message
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Of course you can post any way you want to. On the other hand, the
readers are free to read or not read, answer or not answer. If you get
the reputation of "I can post any way I want and to hell the rest of
you", you may find the people who know the answer to your question may
decide not to bother.

Not all ISP get all messages in order. So your idea that everyone
already knows what the thread is about is wrong.

In some places (and the Internet and newsgroups are international)
people have to pay telephone charges and ISP charges, usually by the
minute. So putting your "Me too" or other drivel at either the top
or the bottom of a 200 line message is costing some people money for
downlload time. They soon get the idea the you do not care and simply
kill file you. Too bad if they happen to be the only one who knows
the answer to your question.

And if you want people to take your messages seriously, grammar and
spelling count. I can almost always tell when the poster is not a
person for whom English is a first language. For them, I will spend
time to decipher a question that I may have some information about.
But if it is an obvious English speaker who cannot take the time to
write a message in understandable English, I am not going to take the
time to figure out what they are saying and then find and post an
answer.

Remember, you are not writing for yourself, you are writing to ask for
help or give information to other people. Or if you are writing for
yourself, that is exactly who is reading.

--
Susan N.

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary
and those who do not.