approx 100 assorted computer/ math/other books

[Mark McIntyre]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:40:45 GMT, in comp.lang.c , Roedy Green
<roedy at seewebsite.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 23:52:03 +0100, Mark McIntyre
><markmcintyre at spamcop.net> wrote or quoted :
>
>>>The blast is against those who complain about top posting. Top posting
>>>is GOOD on one respect. 
>>
>>Its evil. Period. 
>
>I disagree. I would say it is very rare that I actually read rather
>than skip over quoted material.  It is just a nuisance.  

And yet you retained my posting, since it added useful context. Hmm? 

>If people get
>to the point right away they save me time.  

Then like I say, they can snip the entire previous post. I tend to
ignore contextless posts in technical groups tho, as they're typically
unreadable. 

>If I need to refresh
>myself on  the quoted material I can look it up myself. 

Where? Google? Get real. Presumably you don't read very many posts a
day, or else have an eidetic memory. 

>I think it is a superior system, but I don't use it myself because it
>gets people too angry.  Perhaps a compromise would be to simply label
>a top post with something like "quotes follow" or "top posted" to let
>you know where to find context if you need it.

in the bitbucket I'm afraid,along with the rest of any post with that
attitude. Anyone who can't post properly probably can't string
coherent thought together anyway. 

>Who gets annoyed by what may have to do with the features of
>newsreader .  Agent does not have a single key "jump to the meat" 

spacebar

By the way, which of the frenzied spam of groups are you reading this
in ? 
-- 
Mark McIntyre
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