Frank Pittel <fwp@warlock.deepthought.com> wrote in
news:lMmcnetUlrSaE2SjXTWcrg@giganews.com: 

> In rec.photo.equipment.35mm Tesselator <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> wrote:
>: Really...  we're not gonna do that silly top posting thing on here
>: are we? Gawd I hope not!   It's extremely anal!  It's not correct.
>: and just wastes everyone's time.  Gripes about misspellings are even
>: more tollerable! 
> 
> 
> It's the people that whine about top posting instead of their prefered
> method of bottom posting that are anal. They don't even realize how
> much of a pain bottom posting is.

People prefer to bottom-post because that's how normal people normally 
read. They start at the top, and go down. Noone starts at the bottom of a 
page and works their way up.


>: "John Miller" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
>: news:bdat12$r99$1@n4vu.com... 
>:> Big woo.
> 
> 
>: Hehe.
> 
>:> Jason O'Rourke wrote self-righteously to Doug:
>:> > OTOH, both of you are top posters, so he is in no position to
>:> > throw stones.
> 
>: What about middle-posting?  No wait don't answer that.
> 
> 
>:> -- 
>:> John Miller
>:> Usenet admin since 1987
> 
>: ...
> 
> 
>:> The superfluous is very necessary.
>:>                 -- Voltaire
> 
> 
>: Sigh...
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