Hi All,

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped. This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point. Hope this helps you.

Richard M. Watkin.

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A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

R M. Watkin wrote:
Hi All,

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped. This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point. Hope this helps you.


Please to be explaining why you are unable to edit the posts to which
you are replying.

Matthew

--
I'm a contractor. If you want an opinion I'll sell you one.
Which one do you want?

In article ,
"Matthew L. Martin" wrote:

R M. Watkin wrote:
Hi All,

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped. This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point. Hope this helps you.


Please to be explaining why you are unable to edit the posts to which
you are replying.

Matthew

Uh, tough winter, huh?
I mean, I enjoy a good donnybrook as well as the next person but maybe
we could just snip the "diss" out of disfunctional, pull up our socks,
and get on with the gardening.

If not, I go and get a Guinness and wait for you to come back to your
senses.

- Bill

Coloribus gustibus non disputatum

[snipes]

No cluons were harmed when R M. Watkin wrote:
The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross
is not sniped.

This is simply not true. Some of us always snipe at the excess dross.
Others, like me, snipe at dross even when it is not in excess. Many people
snipe simply to be sniping. I don't know how many snipers actually own the
requisite sniper rifles, so I won't hazard a guess, but there are probably
enough to trim down the number of top posters and dross posters.

This means you have to wade through the whole
post to get to the point. Hope this helps you.

What if the whole post only comes up to your ankles? Is this still wading?
Or does the post have to come up to your waist to be considered as wading?
What if the post is so noxious as to dissolve reinforced concrete - does
top posting matter if you refuse to wade in at all?

As for help, I would hope someone would throw me a line and pull me out
if I waded in too deeply and found myself unable to make my way back to the
firm solidity of Terra Usenetta. If that person used the line to drag me
under, however, it might be funny, but would not be very helpful...


Mark Edwards
--
Proof of Sanity Forged Upon Request

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:41:46 -0000, Mark Edwards
wrote:

[snipes]

No cluons were harmed when R M. Watkin wrote:
The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross
is not sniped.

This is simply not true. Some of us always snipe at the excess dross.
Others, like me, snipe at dross even when it is not in excess. Many people
snipe simply to be sniping. I don't know how many snipers actually own the
requisite sniper rifles, so I won't hazard a guess, but there are probably
enough to trim down the number of top posters and dross posters.

*swoon*


*thud*



Penelope



--
You have proven yourself to be the most malicious,
classless person that I've encountered in years.
- "pointed"

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:02:22 GMT, Penelope Periwinkle wrote:

On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:41:46 -0000, Mark Edwards
wrote:

[snipes]

No cluons were harmed when R M. Watkin wrote:
The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross
is not sniped.

This is simply not true. Some of us always snipe at the excess dross.
Others, like me, snipe at dross even when it is not in excess. Many people
snipe simply to be sniping. I don't know how many snipers actually own the
requisite sniper rifles, so I won't hazard a guess, but there are probably
enough to trim down the number of top posters and dross posters.

*swoon*


*thud*

Penelope, just don't go on a snipe hunt with Mark.

--
Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951.
"My dog ate my gratitude journal." -- Paula



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R M. Watkin wrote:

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped.

The reason that people top post is because they are too damn lazy
to snip the irrevelant portions of the message to which they are
responding.

This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point.

This does not happen when posters follow net etiquette.

Hope this helps you.

Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Dick

On 2/11/07 12:23 PM, in article , "Dick
Adams" wrote:

R M. Watkin wrote:

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped.

The reason that people top post is because they are too damn lazy
to snip the irrevelant portions of the message to which they are
responding.

This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point.

This does not happen when posters follow net etiquette.

Hope this helps you.

Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Dick

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Bill
-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:55:22 GMT, Salmon Egg
wrote:
"Dick Adams" wrote:
R M. Watkin wrote:

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.


Penelope
--
You have proven yourself to be the most malicious,
classless person that I've encountered in years.
- "pointed"

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

--oTTo--

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, Otto Bahn wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs after 65 million
years of dominating the earth, nuclear weapon development in Iran is
pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is *finally*
iced over, so no more lake effect storms here! Lake Ontario is the
culprit over Oswego County.

--
Chris McG.
Harming humanity since 1951.
"My dog ate my gratitude journal." -- Paula


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"Chris McGonnell" wrote

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is *finally*
iced over, so alert the local EMS it's bozos-on-ice season.

IFYPFY.

Lake Ontario is the culprit over Oswego County.

Either that or Tamara started drinking again.

(Yeah, right. Erie is south of Ontario.)

--oTTo--

Chris McGonnell wrote in
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, Otto Bahn wrote:

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

top posting snipers


Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric
study identifying the various other social
disfunctionalities associated with people who top-post
to newsgroups.

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top
posting is pretty minor.

Compared to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs
after 65 million years of dominating the earth, nuclear
weapon development in Iran is pretty minor.

Anybody other than the good Doctroid posting from
the snow belt?

Up until last week, but the meteorologists say Lake Erie is
*finally* iced over, so no more lake effect storms here!
Lake Ontario is the culprit over Oswego County.


You be wrong, per Channel 8 (Cleveland)(or was that the
Clveland Plain Dealer ?)(it were someone local, at least, and
news-ish). Huron is sending us wet gooey masses of snow. And
Lake Effect is just a term for "We aren't sure how much will
fall before it stops or where it will fall so we will make up
this here cute name for GO SOUTH OR FREEZE YOU IDIOTS"


--
TeaLady (mari)

"The principle of Race is meant to embody and express the
utter negation of human freedom, the denial of equal rights, a
challenge in the face of mankind." A. Kolnai

On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:07:29 -0500, "Otto Bahn" wrote:


Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

Why, are you feeling peckish?


Penelope
--
"Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart."
"ElissaAnn"

"Penelope Periwinkle" wrote

Also, is there a newsgroup rec.vegetarians.edible?

Why, are you feeling peckish?

I'm hungry for some crotchety.

--oTTo--