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Eric
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Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:
were can you get a bottom reader from |
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You read a question, each time you go to read the replys you have to scroll
to the bottom all the time to read the next new reply,
It appears that most people have a reader that start at the bottom if the
post, and they scroll up if it has gone down to far.
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Boris Mohar
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:10 am Post subject:
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On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 07:42:03 +1200, "Eric"
<haha@clear.i.never.see.junk.mail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | You read a question, each time you go to read the replys you have to scroll
to the bottom all the time to read the next new reply,
It appears that most people have a reader that start at the bottom if the
post, and they scroll up if it has gone down to far.
Use Page Down key |
Regards,
Boris Mohar
Got Knock? - see:
Viatrack Printed Circuit Designs (among other things) http://www.viatrack.ca |
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jim dorey
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:04:48 -0400, Boris Mohar
<borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:
accepted standard for usenet has been, for a very long time, to put
response under the quoted message. with courtesy, meaning trimming,
bottom posting is eminently more readable than top, most especially with
long bits of quoted text.
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Boris Mohar
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:10 am Post subject:
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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 00:46:14 GMT, "jim dorey" <skaar@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
| Quote: | On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 18:04:48 -0400, Boris Mohar
borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:
Use Page Down key
accepted standard for usenet has been, for a very long time, to put
response under the quoted message. with courtesy, meaning trimming,
bottom posting is eminently more readable than top, most especially with
long bits of quoted text.
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Acceptable standard for usenet is also when replying to the original poster
is to reply to original poster and not someone else's reply to the original
poster ;)
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jim dorey
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:10 am Post subject:
Re: were can you get a bottom reader from |
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On Fri, 08 Apr 2005 21:24:11 -0400, Boris Mohar
<borism_-void-_@sympatico.ca> wrote:
| Quote: | Use Page Down key
accepted standard for usenet has been, for a very long time, to put
response under the quoted message. with courtesy, meaning trimming,
bottom posting is eminently more readable than top, most especially with
long bits of quoted text.
Acceptable standard for usenet is also when replying to the original
poster
is to reply to original poster and not someone else's reply to the
original
poster ;)
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i suck at being standard, even my nuts are metric.
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 3:10 pm Post subject:
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The Usenet archives are where it's at as far as I'm concerned. Top
posted messages such as this are more than welcome when searching for
information. To hell with out dated standards that put what you want to
find at the end of the post. Ever searched for something using
Google....
Boris Mohar wrote:
<see his dumb post above> |
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Jim Adney
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:
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On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 07:42:03 +1200 "Eric"
<haha@clear.i.never.see.junk.mail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | You read a question, each time you go to read the replys you have to scroll
to the bottom all the time to read the next new reply,
It appears that most people have a reader that start at the bottom if the
post, and they scroll up if it has gone down to far.
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Most Newsgroup posts are short enough that there's not much scrolling
necessary. I use, and recommend, Forte Agent. With Agent, most of the
message will usually fall on the first page. If you learn the right
keys to press, navigation becomes simple and almost automatic.
I agree that it's annoying when people quote back a lot of irrelevant
text, because that just makes it hard to find the important stuff, and
it wastes bandwidth.
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Jim Adney jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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Eric
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:
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Scrolling down with the mouse, using the page down key on keyboard, what's
the difference when you click on to a "top poster" like I have done, you can
start reading straight away, no pissing around.
<oparr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1113048393.752845.88980@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
The Usenet archives are where it's at as far as I'm concerned. Top
posted messages such as this are more than welcome when searching for
information. To hell with out dated standards that put what you want to
find at the end of the post. Ever searched for something using
Google....
Boris Mohar wrote:
<see his dumb post above> |
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oparr
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Sat Apr 09, 2005 9:10 pm Post subject:
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Well, I'm a top poster too and will always remain one. Bottom posting
etiquette has it's roots in BBS setups back in the 80ties and early 90ties.
Both Outlook's newsreader (which is what most people use for newsgroups
these days) and Google (formerly Deja News, which most people use for
searching Usenet archives) are top oriented.
Unfortunately, people are not always logical, ritual and etiquette dictate
behavior patterns and mindsets as though these things are always conceived
by wise men for the common good of mankind. Most newbies to forums and
newsgroups end up conforming to established norms in order to meet what they
consider to be acceptance criteria. Well, yours truly has been up and down,
to and fro long enough to think for himself occasionally. And on occasions
such as these I see no merit whatsoever in bottom posting.
"Eric" <haha@clear.i.never.see.junk.mail.com> wrote in message
news:4257e020$1@clear.net.nz...
| Quote: | Scrolling down with the mouse, using the page down key on keyboard, what's
the difference when you click on to a "top poster" like I have done, you
can
start reading straight away, no pissing around.
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