Re: Chuck Falconer top posting again

Ray Haddad wrote:

.... snip ...

During the early days of USENET, it was considered appropriate to
post on the top to save people having to wade through a post and
rehash everything just to read one line of agreement. Still is, as
far as I'm concerned. Whether you approve or not, it's up the person
adding his or her comment to decide where to post. Moaning about it
or putting someone into a kill file is childish and does absolutely
nothing save to increase the SNR of a newsgroup.

I think you have the 'early days' confused :-) However, in general
I agree with you. And, as you may have noticed, I consider it
important to advise contravenors of the Usenet standards as early
as possible.

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