Newsgroup Netiquette

[Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun]

In article <6cg8nvcd3053p6v8nc439rnmlkhhal0940@4ax.com>,
jfields@austininstruments.com mentioned...

On Fri, 26 Sep 2003 05:54:54 -0700, Watson A.Name - "Watt Sun"
alondra101@hotmail.com> wrote:

In article <ven0nvs4nl58m5sf9tf3m0p93vget9dq2o@4ax.com>,
jfields@austininstruments.com mentioned...
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 10:24:11 -0700, "Baphomet"
fandanospam@catskill.net> wrote:

Is it considered proper to reply to a newsgroup post underneath or above
the orignal? If proper is the wrong terminology, which method is more
readily understandable?

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It is only proper to bottom post as I am doing now. There are no
exceptions, and you may notice that top posters are invariably
knuckle-draggers with severe social problems.

But unfortunately some software defaults to the top post. One I know
of is Outhouse - er, Outlook.

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Which more or less extends my definition of knuckle-draggers to include
the authors of OE.

Well, the knuckle-draggers would be the users, which seem to consist
of more than half of the world.

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And of course it's hard to stick to Netiquette when the rest of the
world is going to hell in a handbasket, with all the spammers,
scammers, and trolls.

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Proper is proper, regardless of the environment in which it's forced to
survive. How's that for pontificating?-) Actually, I was being a
little tongue-in-cheek, since there are occasions where top posting is
OK, I guess, but yeah, the way a lot of people post is abdominal.
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Something about draining swamps and alligators goes here..

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I'm not familiar with that one, how does it go?

http://www.askoxford.com/pressroom/archive/phrase
When the .PDF's finished loading, hit ctrl-F, type alli and hit enter.
There are a whole lotta other interesting sayings in there, too, if
you wanna check 'em out. Like some of Dubya's words of wisdom. )


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[Baphomet]

"John Fields" <jfields@austininstruments.com> wrote in message
news:6on5nvk4l0aaektb2htp1tn1pvmf1ej98o@4ax.com...

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:40:20 GMT, no_spam@aol.com (Bob Masta) wrote:

I always bottom-post or inter-post on Newsgroups,
and typically top-post or inter-post on Email. But
one issue that other respondents haven't addressed
here is those who must read their messages with a
speech synthesizer, such as blind people. I have
corresponded with some via Email, and as you can
imagine they _much_ prefer top-posting so they
don't have to listen to their own original message
all over again. My guess would be that blind users
on Usenet would rather see top-posts as well.

New Newsgroup: alt.top-posting.fuckwits

 

[Arachnoid]

That link doesn't show up in google groups, is there a problem with it?


> New Newsgroup: alt.top-posting.fuckwits

 

[Baphomet]

"Arachnoid" <radicalfish@msn.com> wrote in message
news:70938d8d.0310020825.49ee6ce5@posting.google.com...

That link doesn't show up in google groups, is there a problem with it?


New Newsgroup: alt.top-posting.fuckwits

Don't know. I got notification that there was this new newsgroup. I went to
it but there were only a few posts so far.

Path: sn-us!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail
From: "NewKillerStar" <newkillerstar26@hotNOTmail.com>
Newsgroups: alt.top-posting.fuckwits
Subject: Yeh
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:00:54 -0400
Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com
Message-ID: <vnk6a3c35g3s15@corp.supernews.com>
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165
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[Baphomet]

"Arachnoid" <radicalfish@msn.com> wrote in message
news:70938d8d.0310020825.49ee6ce5@posting.google.com...

That link doesn't show up in google groups, is there a problem with it?


New Newsgroup: alt.top-posting.fuckwits

This post was from Timmy and, at least so far, is the only relevant post.

The person that created this froup is indeed a fuckwit. Who gives a rat's
ass about top posting? Is the proper netiquette relevant anymore? Do you
want to read message at the bottom of a thread and go through all the shit
to see someone post, LOL? I didn't think so. Tell your WebTVers and AOLers
about top posting. Using a term such as "fuckwit" isn't exactly cricket
either, so those of you that worry about such shit need to get a life and
get off yer arse and go outside.