In rec.photo.equipment.35mm Jon Pike <Anonomoose@hotmail.com> wrote:
: 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.

The problem with bottom posting is that during a thread when a post gets replied
and the the reply gets replied to, etc, etc you then have to go to the bottom
to read the reply. With top posting the new and interesting information is at
the top.

:>: "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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