No, but I don't reread the 1st paragraph to get to the 2nd one either. When
you read a succession of bottom posted messages, this is what you'd have.
Bottom posting is useful when one only reads the last post, something most
regular readers here rarely do. Microsoft's hosted newsgroups have been
heavily top-posted for over a decade, so it's the norm here.

I can give you a string of arguments for both sides, but it's irrelevant.
Fact is, no one will win this debate. Just because bottom posting was the
original usenet convention does not make it immune to change. If you want to
continue this specious debate, feel free to do so but it's pointless as
neither side will win. Personally, I've always found it best to just follow
whatever convention is used by any given group.

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"Gordon" <gordonbparker******.com> wrote in message
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> "Miles" <webmiles@invalid.address.com> wrote in message
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>> I never read a bottom poster, because I usually don't see the stuff at
>> the bottom. I'm sure not going to scroll for it.
>>[/color]
>
> So you read a book from the bottom up?
> Moron.[/color]

Err - At least he can Err read. Err. Unlike yourself. Err.

Are you wearing your NET COP badge? <sigh> Err.

Isn't that what bottom posters do?



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"Gordon" <gordonbparker******.com> wrote in message
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> "Miles" <webmiles@invalid.address.com> wrote in message
> news:5BBEC2E8-1CCF-453A-8E0C-41189CB6F587@microsoft.com...[color=green]
>> I never read a bottom poster, because I usually don't see the stuff at
>> the bottom. I'm sure not going to scroll for it.
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> So you read a book from the bottom up?
> Moron.[/color]

"Dave" <Dave@beepbeepbeepbeep.com> wrote in message
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> Isn't that what bottom posters do?
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Answer: 186,000 miles per second













Question: What is the speed of light?




Do you REALLY do it this way? Of course not. Twit.

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> Isn't that what bottom posters do?
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Answer: 186,000 miles per second













Question: What is the speed of light?




Do you REALLY do it this way? Of course not. Twit.[/QUOTE]


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On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 07:23:37 -0400, "Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org>
wrote:
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>I can give you a string of arguments for both sides, but it's irrelevant.
>Fact is, no one will win this debate. Just because bottom posting was the
>original usenet convention does not make it immune to change. If you want to
>continue this specious debate, feel free to do so but it's pointless as
>neither side will win. Personally, I've always found it best to just follow
>whatever convention is used by any given group.[/color]

Then bottom post - that's the convention on the USEnet, where this
group exists.

A. It destroys the natural flow
Q. Why is top posting wrong.

"+Bob+" <nomailplease@example.com> wrote in message
news:ihp6d51i3nobvbubum4puj16j8vfcuut94@4ax.com...[color=blue]
> Then bottom post - that's the convention on the USEnet, where this
> group exists.
>
> A. It destroys the natural flow
> Q. Why is top posting wrong.[/color]

It's interesting to note that on most non-MS technical newsgroups bottom
posting is the custom - I think it was the introduction of Outlook Express
that made ready access to the MS newsgroups available to all Windows users,
and whose default setting was top-posting, that destroyed it on the MS news
groups....

ever




what



you keep on posting down there.... if it doesn't show in the preview box, I
won't see it.
;-)


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"Gordon" <gordonbparker******.com> wrote in message
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> "Dave" <Dave@beepbeepbeepbeep.com> wrote in message
> news:OVP56#0SKHA.4028@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Isn't that what bottom posters do?
>>[/color]
>
> Answer: 186,000 miles per second
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> Question: What is the speed of light?
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> Do you REALLY do it this way? Of course not. Twit.[/color]

"Dave" <Dave@beepbeepbeepbeep.com> wrote in message
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> ever
> what
> you keep on posting down there.... if it doesn't show in the preview box,
> I won't see it.
> ;-)[/color]

I was being deliberately extreme to show you the error of top-posting.

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:07:46 +0100, Gordon wrote:
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> "Dave" <Dave@beepbeepbeepbeep.com> wrote in message
> news:#pdaKY2SKHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> ever
>> what
>> you keep on posting down there.... if it doesn't show in the preview box,
>> I won't see it.
>> ;-)[/color]
>
> I was being deliberately extreme to show you the error of top-posting.[/color]

I have always found top-posting threads much easier to read, but I tend to
follow whatever the custom is where I am. I also believe that when I was
first on Usenet in the mid-80s, top posting was the norm. However, I don't
trust my memory much better than you do.

In these groups and some others I read that are not on Microsoft, it often
means reading (and replying to) alternating top and bottom posts in a
single thread.

But guess what: I can handle it.

..necessary when ,backwards talk even can I

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"Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:07:46 +0100, Gordon wrote:
>[color=green]
>> "Dave" <Dave@beepbeepbeepbeep.com> wrote in message
>> news:#pdaKY2SKHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=darkred]
>>> ever
>>> what
>>> you keep on posting down there.... if it doesn't show in the preview
>>> box,
>>> I won't see it.
>>> ;-)[/color]
>>
>> I was being deliberately extreme to show you the error of top-posting.[/color]
>
> I have always found top-posting threads much easier to read, but I tend to
> follow whatever the custom is where I am. I also believe that when I was
> first on Usenet in the mid-80s, top posting was the norm. However, I don't
> trust my memory much better than you do.
>
> In these groups and some others I read that are not on Microsoft, it often
> means reading (and replying to) alternating top and bottom posts in a
> single thread.
>
> But guess what: I can handle it.
>
> .necessary when ,backwards talk even can I
>[/color]

:-)

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:01:33 -0400, "Dave" <Dave@beepbeepbeepbeep.com>
wrote:
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>you keep on posting down there.... if it doesn't show in the preview box, I
>won't see it.[/color]


Try using a real newsreader instead of a POS MS program. You won't
have that problem or many others.