On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 15:14:16 -0500, Scott Willing
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 18:20:28 GMT, "Vaughn Simon"
wrote:


"Scott Willing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:19:43 -0500, Scott Willing

Please people! Trim your posts. If you do so, you will not only save
bandwidth, but you will save readers lots of scrolling and they will be much
more likely to actually read your post. To trim, all you have to do is
highlight the area to be eliminated and hit your "Del" key.

I apologize, but first you must permit me to utter a good-natured
"Duh."

For everyone who says "trim" there will be at least one who says "trim
under pain of death." Yes, trimming is considered by many to be a sin
on usenet, especially by those who were here before the great unwashed
masses gained access... and also have control issues.


Trimming has long been an honorable and noble Usenet tradition and has
always been strongly encouraged, particularly when bandwidth issues, even
with text postings, was an issue. Trimming has been severely chastised in
times past, present, and future, when the trimmer deliberately trims
context out of posts to either strengthen the poster's position in a debate
or to weaken or ignore the points of another poster.


The argument is that posts get separated from their threads for a
multitude of reasons, and purists (which I'm decidedly not) insist
that the entire thread be kept intact, so when alien archeologists
studying the leftover bits of blown-out humanity don't have to work so
hard to figure out the context. As for me, well, I think a little
judicious trimming goes a long way towards readability.


.... as it should be.

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BTW, the same purists (aka usenet nazis) will slap your willy for
top-posting too, and they really get their knickers in a knot about
it. We can only assume their mommies overdid the spanking a bit... and
that they really, *really* liked it.


Frankly, even as *not* a usenet nazi, top-posting drives me up a wall.
As one poster's sig says:

A: Because it destroys the logic of a thread
Q: Why is top-posting bad?

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