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Borage (Off Topic - Top Posting discussion)
"David Hill" wrote in message ... ".... Why do people like the answer before the question? ...." Possibly because some people don't seem to know how to EDIT. threads. You get a whole string repeated time after time and possibly just 2 or 3 words added, and I for 1 am sick of having to scroll through anything up to 100 lines to try to find the new bit -- David Hill As someone looking to improve my Usenet skills, I see two problems. I agree with the earlier post that having the 'cart before the horse' does make for poor reading of a thread, but that presupposes that you can read the whole thread in one message, rather than reading the same set of responses over and over again - a real waste of bandwidth, I think. I do also agree with David, that scrolliing through pages of messages & replies, just to read an off topic couple of lines, is a pain - ( which is why I initially welcomed top posts, I admit). Is the answer to have a posting, plus replies, each of which only contains it's own text? We would then not be using bandwidth unnecessarily, and catching up with posts would be quicker. (I appreciate that we are using a variety of Newsgroup clients). Sorry to go off-topic - if anyone can point us to authorative Newsgroup etiquette sources, that would be appreciated. regards, mbb |
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