"Bruce Murphy" <pack-news@rattus.net> wrote in message news:m2brwlsnjw.fsf@fuscipes.rattus.net...
> "Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> > "Bruce Murphy" <pack-news@rattus.net> wrote in message news:m2he6es2cr.fsf@fuscipes.rattus.net...
> > > "Tesselator" <jimmmboe@hotmail.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > 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
> > >
> > > Ah, someone to whom the term 'netiquette' will come as a novelty.
> >
> > Netiquette would have much much more to do with slighting or dissing
> > someone in a one-liner than it would have to do with wheather you
> > placed you reply text at the top, bottom, or middle of the (included
> > for your _convienience_) quoted text of the previous message.  But
> > it's ok.  We forgive you.
>
> Demonstrating /again/ that you are not in fact aware of publish guidelines
> to posting. There /are/ rules, you've just never bothered to read them.


I couldn't disagree more!  So you're saying that if I "publish" guidelines
specifying some sort of rediculousness like top or bottom posting you're
willing to accept that as /word/.  What a dull and dreary life it is to be
such a conformist.  To live your life and control your behavior based on
the published guidlines produced by some dweeb in a dark corner of some
office who most likely know less about life than you yourself.  No thank
you.  I'm quite happy thinking for myself and questioning athority.

BTW, I have indeed read such things.  They are to be taken with a grain of
salt.  Most of them even say so!  Either in the footnotes or right in the
text body as they lay out for you the "proposed" /general/ guidelines.

I feel for ya bro.