"Doctor Drivel" wrote in message
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"JethroUK©" wrote in message
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assume you've never heard of soonest-first method of filing (posting) -
it's
been around long before computers have - speak to an administrator
(someone
who archives for a living (professionally))

Balls. Usenet convention is bottom posting and always has been,

noone can help usenet defying common-sense - rules will always have problems
when they do that

as that is
the way we write, top down.

say - you - with the benefit of limited comprehension - that maybe 'a rule',
but it is certainly not the reason

There are countless web page on Useenet
etiquette.

rules are for those who lack the intelligence and common-sense to work
without them - i can prove this without contradiction

If you top post people will not respond to you on Usenet and
many will just killfile you.

more fool them - then they wont be able to benefit from my wisdom

secondly - no one ever kill-files - they just say so - curiosity is
toooooooooooooo powerful

Look at this group, all bottom post, just go
with the flow. BTW, I have been on Usenet for eons, initially using green
screens.

you can use 'green screens' now - so what are you saying exactly?


This top posting crap came in because of useless MS Outlook which puts the
cursor at the top.


yet another case of you putting 2 & 2 together and making 5 - email clients
(not just outlook) put the cursor at the top for a very good reason - the
fact that it hasn't dawned on you cant be helped - i suggest you stick to
rules

Fact - You file your new gas bill behind alllllllllllllllllll your old
(archived) gas bills - i know this to be so, in fact i am so confident that
i will shoot myself in the head if it isn't so - based on 'your'
confirmation

before computers were even invented, professional filing was (still-is)
current-most-first - current information (the latest news) is filed in
front of the old news - 'archives' are kept immediately behind from the most
current to the least current

i'd like to say for obvious reasons but i fear it eludes you - however,
rather than explain the reasons i have decided to let you 'think' about the
benefits before i tell you

this method of handling news could not be transfered to paper until the
advent of computers - but now it can - and has been - by all email clients -
i dread to imagine what your email responses look like - i fear you will be
fighting a losing battle with the rest of your colleagues whilst you
pontificate your misguided conclusions

'the' reason for posting in-line is where you need to address specific
points (as opposed to the post as a whole) - so it is also common-sense that
the reply by within the vicinity of the point it is addressing