On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:58:08 -0500, wrote:

===In , on 11/01/04
I
=== at 01:07 PM, "Stephen M. Henning" said:
post
===
where
===The majority of Usenet-users prefer bottom-posting. In addition to
I
===bottom-posting, it is customary to leave out non-relevant parts of the
feel
===message with regard to the reply, and to put the reply directly beneath
like
===the quoted relevant parts. If you want to know more about writing new
posting
===posts. Check out this site:
if
===
I reply
===http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
and
===
snip===Bottom-posting is proper Usenet Etiquette. Check out the
following URL:
is
===
never
===http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
done===
===It was that way in Fidonet, before Usenet went mainstream.
as
===
I
===
am
===Alan
not
allowed

to
have
sharp objects

On or about Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:34:52 GMT, "Nedra"
wrote something like:

You are asking me why I don't trim the extraneous junk on my post.... ??
Your supposed to go on to the next post, silly. Not read to the end -
Sheeeez

Hon, you are still not getting it. Our British and European readers
pay by the word.
--
Crashj

On or about Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:34:52 GMT, "Nedra"
wrote something like:

You are asking me why I don't trim the extraneous junk on my post.... ??
Your supposed to go on to the next post, silly. Not read to the end -
Sheeeez

Hon, you are still not getting it. Our British and European readers
pay by the word.
--
Crashj

On or about Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:08:13 GMT, (TSP) wrote
something like:

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:58:08 -0500, wrote:

===In , on 11/01/04
I
=== at 01:07 PM, "Stephen M. Henning" said:
post
===
where
===The majority of Usenet-users prefer bottom-posting. In addition to
I
===bottom-posting, it is customary to leave out non-relevant parts of the
feel
===message with regard to the reply, and to put the reply directly beneath
like
===the quoted relevant parts. If you want to know more about writing new
posting
===posts. Check out this site:
if
===
I reply
===http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
and
===
snip===
Bottom-posting is proper Usenet Etiquette. Check out the
following URL:
is
===
never
===http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
done
===
===It was that way in Fidonet, before Usenet went mainstream.
as
===
I
===
am
===Alan
not
allowed

to
have
sharp objects

I am sending this to ahbou so everyone can see your pain.
--
Crashj

On or about Fri, 05 Nov 2004 02:08:13 GMT, (TSP) wrote
something like:

On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 18:58:08 -0500, wrote:

===In , on 11/01/04
I
=== at 01:07 PM, "Stephen M. Henning" said:
post
===
where
===The majority of Usenet-users prefer bottom-posting. In addition to
I
===bottom-posting, it is customary to leave out non-relevant parts of the
feel
===message with regard to the reply, and to put the reply directly beneath
like
===the quoted relevant parts. If you want to know more about writing new
posting
===posts. Check out this site:
if
===
I reply
===http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
and
===
snip===
Bottom-posting is proper Usenet Etiquette. Check out the
following URL:
is
===
never
===http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
done
===
===It was that way in Fidonet, before Usenet went mainstream.
as
===
I
===
am
===Alan
not
allowed

to
have
sharp objects

I am sending this to ahbou so everyone can see your pain.
--
Crashj

You are asking me why I don't trim the extraneous junk on my post.... ??
Your supposed to go on to the next post, silly. Not read to the end -
Sheeeez

Hon, you are still not getting it. Our British and European readers
pay by the word.
--
Crashj

Well, then, it seems to me that this should have been the topic of the whole
thread. We should push for snipping, rather than for where people put their
message.

You are asking me why I don't trim the extraneous junk on my post.... ??
Your supposed to go on to the next post, silly. Not read to the end -
Sheeeez

Hon, you are still not getting it. Our British and European readers
pay by the word.
--
Crashj

Well, then, it seems to me that this should have been the topic of the whole
thread. We should push for snipping, rather than for where people put their
message.

The problem is, it _doesn't_ eliminate the need to snip. For those of us in
North America, the actual amount of data coming down the newsgroup feed is
likely unimportant (though there's still a lot of people on slow phone
lines), but readers in Europe still mostly pay by the minute for connect
time.
Tongue FIRMLY in Cheek

See, it has nothing to do with Bush, this is the real reason they don't
like Americans, our free access to downloading usenet. ;o)

Not to worry Europe, just as you got rid of your dictators, so shall you
rid yourselves of the dictators of your computer time.... Course then
again, with the current negative light upon us, perhaps you'd rather not
follow? ;o) ~ jan


~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~


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Ann wrote: My efforts to bottom post here have usually involved typing the
message and then cutting and pasting it to the bottom.

Excellent idea, and also excellent learning opportunity here, that this
thread should have been more about snipping than placing. Ann deffinitely
gets it.

I'd like to know who the OP was who messed up and didn't start this thread
with OT for Off Topic? tsk, tsk, tsk! ;o) ~ jan


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Ann wrote: My efforts to bottom post here have usually involved typing the
message and then cutting and pasting it to the bottom.

Excellent idea, and also excellent learning opportunity here, that this
thread should have been more about snipping than placing. Ann deffinitely
gets it.

I'd like to know who the OP was who messed up and didn't start this thread
with OT for Off Topic? tsk, tsk, tsk! ;o) ~ jan


~Power to the Porg, Flow On!~


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The problem is, it _doesn't_ eliminate the need to snip. For those of us
in
North America, the actual amount of data coming down the newsgroup feed is
likely unimportant (though there's still a lot of people on slow phone
lines), but readers in Europe still mostly pay by the minute for connect
time. They don't want to download any more data than they have to. For
heaven's sake, even if you must top-post, snip!
--
derek

Actually that is not true. In the last few months broadband has been
introduced in many areas in the UK, and within 6 to 12 months most of the
country will be connected. BB take up is very high as it costs about $25
per month, very close to dial up flat fee. Only those who use the internet
irregularly connect per minute.

fireball

You are amazing Crashj! I think that there is more garbage and waste
vegtable matter coming out of your month than most people's veggie filter.
Come over to the UK and visit us Brits and see how it really is. Even in
the middle of the country miles from any sizeable town such as where I live,
we have broadband. My village comprizes about 1500 homes, 30 small
companies and there are about 300 BB users on our exchange.

Less of the pay by the word please!

Fireball



"Crashj" wrote in message
...
On or about Thu, 04 Nov 2004 02:34:52 GMT, "Nedra"
wrote something like:

You are asking me why I don't trim the extraneous junk on my post.... ??
Your supposed to go on to the next post, silly. Not read to the end -
Sheeeez

Hon, you are still not getting it. Our British and European readers
pay by the word.
--
Crashj

Thanks for that. It seems that us in the UK are 'spoilt' with broadband.
It seems that you guys in USA don't have it. But at 56K that I used for the
last 5 years a few 10's of K didn't take an hour to download. What
connection speed do you have?

Fireball


"zookeeper" wrote in message
...
wrote in message news:4187db05$1@padme....
None of you get it do you??
TALK FISH. or talk somewhere else. Transfer your inane ping pong to
alt.geek ... and I think photos help and should be included in the post
where it
helps - by all means compress the pix as I did to make them small - that
will help ... Fireball

NO PHOTOS!! Yes, I'm shouting because you don't seem to "get it." I'm
lucky
because my ISP automatically rejects photos, drawings, pictures, binaries,
whatever else you want to call them, in text-only newsgroups. Look at the
size of a post with a picture and the size of a post without -- many
Usenet
users still use dial-up connections, and while most do not now pay by the
minute, it's more than annoying to have a post w/ binaries download for an
hour or so when it could have been posted in a binary group where it
belongs. For garden or pond pix use alt.binaries.pictures.garden; for fish
pix use alt.binaries.aquaria; for fractals use alt.binaries.fractal-art;
etc., then post a message here with a link to the binary newsgroup
message.
DON'T POST BINARIES (aka pictures, photos) ON TEXT-ONLY NEWSGROUPS --
compressed or not, they're not appropriate here. Thank you.
--
Zk

Fireball is what is known, technically, as a ****wit. It is a
legitimate Australian term for an unteachable ignorant person. Into
the kill file with him.
--
Crashj

Now we all know that you are a juvenile - thought so.

Fireball

next internet access is going to be piggy backed on electricity. no more separate BB
or ISDN or DSL. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/technolo..._internet.html
BTW, in Japan BB is like 10- 15 bucks a month. and some cities in US are already
planning city wide WIFI. Ingrid

Fireball wrote:

You are amazing Crashj! I think that there is more garbage and waste
vegtable matter coming out of your month than most people's veggie filter.
Come over to the UK and visit us Brits and see how it really is. Even in
the middle of the country miles from any sizeable town such as where I live,
we have broadband. My village comprizes about 1500 homes, 30 small
companies and there are about 300 BB users on our exchange.

Less of the pay by the word please!

Fireball


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