On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 22:46:00 -0500, krw wrote:

[snip]

BTW, I wouldn't expect top-posters to "get it".


Posting location has NOTHING to do with intelligence, or any other
relevant quality.

Intelligent people, at least in the West, read from top to bottom.

True. but irrelevant.

Not at all. Intelligent people write for their reader. top
posting helps the reader not.

It definitely DOES help, particularly with very large amounts of
quoted material (if you think it's really easy to scroll down, you
probably forgot about the HUNDREDS of new messages in some groups, try
that "easy" scrolling when your fingers are sore from doing it
hundreds of times).


Conversations between intelligent people go forward in time.

True, but irrelevant.

Nope. See above.

Answers come after questions, etc.

True, but irrelevant.

Nope. See above.

Don't ignore the difference between a usenet POST and a usenet THREAD.

I'll confuse what I want to, but I'm confusing nothing. Apparently
you agree with me, since you post infix, as do intelligent people.

That is important. When reading a post in a thread, the reader has
ALREDAY been exposed to the quoted material, the response (at whatever
location in that post) is read AFTER that other stuff.

Nope. I read thousands of posts a day.

What do you think a "usenet thread" is?

A context hint is
invaluable, as it is in all delayed conversations. Remember, this
isn't a private conversation.


Notice that you totally ignored the major point of my post. That's
what happens when people follow rules religiously (that is,
mindlessly).

You might notice that I seldom top-post. This is the effect of my
doing what makes sense to me, not mindless rule-following and ignoring
other views.
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Mark Lloyd
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