"pioe[rmv]" <"pioe[rmv]"@coldsiberia.org> wrote in message news:3EF9C926.4010509@coldsiberia.org...
> Tesselator wrote:
>
> > Not true!  Just the opposite.  You read the first post in a thread and the
> > successive replies.  The reply is at the top where normal people place
> > thier eyes on the page ready to read the next bit of reply.  Anyway I'm
> > with John Miller...  I don't really care where it's posted just as long
> > noone complains about it and spouts off with how to post as being the
> > word of the NNTP gods like there even are such rules.  LOL
>
> This is entirely wrong.

No.  Actually is entirely subject to personal preference which was the
point I was making in the first place.


> I want to know what it is about, and I want to see the question coming
> before the answer. So do most people.

Then read the first post fist.  Do you always start in the middle of a book?


> Therefore, any reply ought to come after what is being replied to.
> That is, NOT at the top.


It does come after.  at the top of the next reply!

If this is backwards to you then when you turn the page of a book you
must either read from the bottom up or you quickly rescan the page you
just finished...   LOL,  you're not gonna get very far in /that/ book.