GardenBanter.co.uk - View Single Post

05-02-2006, 08:23 AM posted to rec.gardens

"Lady Blacksword" wrote in message

Oh Really? Then what I'm reading is a figment of my
imagination????!! Or is it you, Travis, who is a figment?
Murri

"Travis M." wrote in message
news:fX8Ff.640$pY.461@trndny01...
"Wolf Kirchmeir" wrote in message

wrote:
the first people on usenet were scientists and email was
linear, not packaged like it is now, further messages
were
THREADED like it is now so we KNOW what the topic of the
message is as we
scroll thru. I know cause I was there at the start. we
didnt
all have puters at home and it would sometimes take days
before we got an answer to an email so it was pretty easy
to forget what
the person was talking about. everyone is using readers
that
THREAD messages, that is line up
the posts with the OP first and then replies as they come
in,
right? the problem of bottom posting is the nesting
sequence....................

[snip]

The problem is the mix of top and bottom posting, the
inconsistent and/or careless snipping, etc.

NB that I snipped the rest of your post, which consisted of
previous posts that are more or less irrelevant to my
answer to
your comment. There are newsreaders that will display
threads in a tree when
to display threads. I don't know about Outlook, since I've
never used it.
HTH

Outlook does not do newsgroups.

You are using Outlook Express 6 not Outlook.

--

Travis in Shoreline Washington