On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:13:01 +0100, Java Jive wrote:

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Which is exactly the point. To read a short top-posted mail, I can
remain in the navigation pane and use the cursor keys to move to each
unread post, and immediately read its text in the text pane, but to
read a bottom-posted one, I have to click or tab across to the text
pane, scroll past history that I've read before, far too often just to
read a single bottom-posted line.

And therein lies the nub of the problem. Netiquette is all about showing
good manners to other people, not about what happens to make your life
easier because you happen to use one particular news client.



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The Wanderer

Inertia keeps me going!