"Philip" wrote in message
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Philip" wrote in message
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Jaques

The merits of Top vs Bottom posting rather depends on how you read
your Usenet.

If you are following through a thread reading post after post (as I
frequently do) then top posting is ideal.

I find that I rarely forget what the theme of the thread is about, and
if I do I only need to nip back to the start of the branch to refresh
my memory.

But if the posting had been in-line, the context would have been right
there, above the line you are writing in reply.

Do you ever use Google to read the Usenet, maybe if you were to try
that then you may appreciate why people top post.

Franz



I am not claiming that top posting is a cure for all the worlds ills, but
on
Google it solves the problem of people who cannot be bothered to trim the
previous posts.

Google has a limit to the number of lines that it shows. There after you
must click a link to read the rest of a post. Now if the posting is at
the
top, problem solved.

It odd each of us has our hangups about newsnet. My particular beef is
the
posting of Off Topic posts. I know you cannot control the direction of a
thread, but to start one with a Subject line "OT: ......." just gets my
goat.

Downloading a typical message costs in the region of 300 micropenny, so
financial considerations are irrelevant. If you nevertheless don't want to
read off topic posts, why do you bother to read them at all? Why not either
delete them or just mark them as read? Or just use OE to block that
particular thread?

Franz