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[Mike Meyer]

Q: What's the second most annoying thing to do on Usenet?
A: Fail to properly trim quotes.

"Dan Perl" <danperl at rogers.com> writes:

> "Fuzzyman" <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:1103273435.300126.261200 at z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> Dan Perl wrote:
>>> "Mike Meyer" <mwm at mired.org> wrote in message
>>> news:86brct1zr3.fsf at guru.mired.org...
>>> > "Dan Perl" <danperl at rogers.com> writes:
>>> >> "Mike Meyer" <mwm at mired.org> wrote in message
>>> >> news:86zn0d20x8.fsf at guru.mired.org...
>>> >>> A: What's the most obnoxious thing on Usenet?
>>> >>> Q: topposting.
>>> >> What is "Jeopardy", Alex?  You got your Q&A mixed up.
>>> > No, the Q&A in that order demonstrate what's wrong with top
>> posting.
>>> Yeah, you're right.
>> If it's a short reply to a long post - in context - top posting is
>> often *significantly * less annoying......

When replying to a long post, you should trim the post to the relevant
parts. This goes a long way towards solving that problem. Even if the
relevant parts are rather long, it's still better to not top post,
because that'll leave things out of order for replies.

> I'm not sure whether you were attacking me too (am I the "little mind"?) or 
> supporting me, Fuzzy.  Anyway, I think that Mike Meyer was more annoyed by 
> my jab at US politics than by my top posting.  But it was safer for him to 
> pick on the latter.

You're wrong. I don't even remember seeing any comment about american
politics in your post.

         <mike
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