Re: Posting etiquette complaints can seem hypocritical by those with ediquette faux pas.

[Guest guest]

Hi Jim:

People post with different preferences, top, bottom and after each

relevant paragraph of other's posts. Similar to sex, all positions

are good in my view.

Nevertheless, I prefer top posting. My email client will enforce

either top or bottom and comes bottom by default. I switched it to

top because I prefer to see the reply, at the top when I first open

the mail. It seems that is now the norm of the majority. I've

missed many bottom and middle posts when in a hurry because they were

buried in the previous stuff.

I totally agree that " Ur " " yr " and " U " do not belong in these

posts. They may be good in IM for response time reasons, but being a

fast typist and not lazy, I don't even use them there.

I for one do not intend to crop my posts and it irritates me when

people do. I want the whole thread right there.

At 08:37 AM 9/8/2006, you wrote:

>On Friday 08 September 2006 4:39 am, medmidas wrote:

> > Hi,

> > U need to trim yr posts, cutting long chains of previous posts except

> > recent one.

> > This one was 110KB.

> > ===========================

> >

> > Jim wrote:

>

>Having long posts could be problem if your computer is still

>operating at 1200

>baud. This is a complaint that one persona makes occasionally in all the

>forums I'm in but a complaint that has decreased dramatically in recent

>years. On the other had, I think you need to spell out your words. " U " and

> " yr " is a sign of lazyness as well. And while we're on the subject of

>posting etiquette, I prefer bottom posting over top posting, but most of the

>people that have come onto the internet in the past 10 years have never got

>the hang of that. At least we don't have posters sending posts with lots of

>color highlighted segments, font changes, and miscellaneous other formating

>complications that limit the quick scan and delete process.

>

>Another 3 cents.

>

>--

>

>Steve - <mailto:dudescholar2%40basicmail.net>dudescholar2@...

>

> " Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original

>dimensions. "

>--Oliver Wendell Holmes

>

>

[Guest guest]

The " new, improved " Yay-hoo group message format makes it difficult to

reply at the bottom of the post... Sry.

steve wrote:

>

> On Friday 08 September 2006 4:39 am, medmidas wrote:

> > Hi,

> > U need to trim yr posts, cutting long chains of previous posts except

> > recent one.

> > This one was 110KB.

> > ===========================

> >

> > Jim wrote:

>

> Having long posts could be problem if your computer is still operating

> at 1200

> baud. This is a complaint that one persona makes occasionally in all the

> forums I'm in but a complaint that has decreased dramatically in recent

> years. On the other had, I think you need to spell out your words. " U "

> and

> " yr " is a sign of lazyness as well. And while we're on the subject of

> posting etiquette, I prefer bottom posting over top posting, but most

> of the

> people that have come onto the internet in the past 10 years have

> never got

> the hang of that. At least we don't have posters sending posts with

> lots of

> color highlighted segments, font changes, and miscellaneous other

> formating

> complications that limit the quick scan and delete process.

>

> Another 3 cents.

>

> --

>

> Steve - dudescholar2@... <mailto:dudescholar2%40basicmail.net>

>

> " Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original

> dimensions. "

> --Oliver Wendell Holmes

>

>

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This is your brain on politics:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060131092225.htm

Yep! You've been an annoying zombie all these years.