Re: Chuck Falconer top posting again

rickman wrote:
On Mar 1, 1:39 am, CBFalconer <cbfalco...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...
But I do find myself being drawn into a pointless
discussion and compelled to explain to everyone here exactly why they
are wrong!
...

You do not need to feel compelled to explain it, they (the posting
format
compliance watchguard) know all the obvious truths well enough.
They appear to want to be inolved in some sort of authority - for
whatever
reasons, perhaps lack of real authority in their real lives.
Ignoring them most of the time and putting them in place when
they go over the top - without investing too much time or
effort in doing so - seems a reasonable attitude to me.

Dimiter

rickman wrote:
On Mar 1, 1:39 am, CBFalconer <cbfalco...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
rickman wrote:

Here is a perfect example of why top posting is sometimes justified.
I actually had to wait for CBs message to display on my computer,
only to find that he felt the need to quote the entire message in
spite of the guidelines and found "no abusive language". I'm not
trying to pick on anyone, but the idea that everyone is going to
trim appropriately (or that their idea of appropriate is the same as
mine) is not reality. So I find that it is better in this case to
top post. You get to read my pointless comments immediately and you
can still get the full impact of my point by scrolling down to read
CBs comment that I am replying to... if you care to wait that long.

Actually I had a subtler reason for quoting it all. I keep all my
own postings, and eventually discard all the incoming ones. The
full quote thus provides me with a copy for future admiration and
possible robbing. :-)

I'm not sure if your smiley means I should not take these comments
seriously or not. But I do find myself being drawn into a pointless
discussion and compelled to explain to everyone here exactly why they
are wrong! Maybe I need to have my meds increased?

I don't recall which side of the discussion you are on, but since
people *do* quote long posts without snipping, doesn't that rather
justify top posting?

BTW, I don't buy into the "local norms". I live in a small city that
was pretty much the same for the last couple hundred years into the
time that I became an adult. Then as urban sprawl from not too
distant large cities brought tons of "new" people here, the norms
changed. Why? Because the new people didn't care about the norms of
the current residents and lived as they chose. Now the area is over
half newbies and the character is totally different.

I don't see usenet being any different. Norms change and no one is
"forced" to obey rules that don't actually affect anyone unless they
choose to participate in whatever discussion is at hand. If they
don't like the posters for *any* reason, they are free to read other
threads.


BTW, can't you get to the bottom of posts with such keys as shift
PgDn, etc.?

Not until it makes it's way over the little wire the connects my
computer to the rest of the world... and I'm not talking about the
power cable.


[mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
[page]: <http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>
Try the download section.

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