Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[sloopy malibu <sloopy@amishinfo.com>]

i never said it was the norm on usenet, then, now or ever... i just said i
did it on usenet and it was 'requested' on several local bbs's
actually i have noticed that inner posting and bottom posting is more common
than top-posting... but i prefer top-posting... if it is required in a
newsgroup or bbs to bottom post or in post then i guess i would.... but
either way it is not something i give much thought about...

sloopy.


> From: "Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com>
> Organization: SemanticEdge
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:08:37 +0200
> Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
> 
> begin  Im Artikel <B785BF7B.2E3%sloopy@amishinfo.com> schrieb "sloopy
> malibu" <sloopy@amishinfo.com>:
> 
>> i would use a friends account from university of delware... he wasnt
>> much of a computer person so didnt really use it... and back then i
>> probly used 'rn' or something similar... (15 years ago i was 15 so i
>> dont rem alot...) i mostly got on to the atari usenet forum, and
>> predominetly just ftp'd software... usenet wasnt as active as it is
>> today... you have to remember the internet wasnt always the porn
>> wasteland it is now...
>> 
>> (and just for the record i didnt use an apple to get online i used an
>> atari 800 with a atari 850 serial interface and a atari 835 acoustic
>> modem... those were the days :')
> 
> Interesting. Although I would point out that bottom posting has been
> the norm in usenet for more than 15 years.
> 
>> any other questions?
>> 
>> sloopy.
>> 
>>> From: "Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com> Organization:
>>> SemanticEdge
>>> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.apple2 Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001
>>> 17:56:07 +0200 Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
>>> 
>>> Im Artikel <B785A03F.242%sloopy@amishinfo.com> schrieb "sloopy malibu"
>>> <sloopy@amishinfo.com>:
>>> 
>>>> hhmmmm... seems i have been 'top-posting' on the internet for 15 yaers
>>> 
>>> Interesting. Where in the internet have you been top posting for 15
>>> years? With which program did you top post in the internet 15 years
>>> ago?
>>> 
>>>> and on bbs's for about 18years... didnt even know i was doing it...
>>>> some local bbs's even 'request' it be done... in my preference i
>>>> rather 'top-posting' because it seems natural to read the response and
>>>> if the reader didnt read the thread or is new he can scroll down for
>>>> the background info while people who are in the know can just read the
>>>> msg without scrolling (or scrolling if the msg is sufficently long
>>>> enough... but IMHO complain about going one way or another is nit
>>>> picking...
>>>> 
>>>> oh well... life goes on...
>>>> 
>>>> sloopy.
>>>> 
>>>>> From: derek.jolly@sage.com (Derek Jolly) Organization: We don' need
>>>>> no steenking organisation. Newsgroups:
>>>>> comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.apple2 Date: 26 Jul 2001 08:15:58 GMT
>>>>> Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
>>>>> 
>>>>> Biggo <biggo@blue-win.ch>, in message
>>>>> <3B5E9491.778B9F35@blue-win.ch>, wrote
>>>>> 
>>>>>> "Matthew S. Carpenter" wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Mo,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Cross-posting is when you post one message to more than news group
>>>>>>> by putting more than one in the to: field of a message.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Now tell me: what is top-posting?
>>>>> 
>>>>> http://rivet.50megs.com/cssfolk.html#toppost should tell you what you
>>>>> need to know. --
>>>>> Derek Jolly (derek.jolly@sage.com) Web: http://rivet.50megs.com/
>>>>> comp.sys.sinclair folklore FAQ: http://rivet.50megs.com/cssfolk.html
>>>>> Transversion PC: http://rivet.50megs.com/games.html "If it's not for
>>>>> you, just don't bloody watch it." - Chris Morris
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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