Re: The Apple ][ was crap

[Roy Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Brian Gaff wrote:

> Top and bottom posting refer to the position of the quoted message like this
> has the the new text at the top, but you can mix it and answer in between or
> quote all at the top and then put your answer.
>
> Cross posting is a pain as all folowups go to all groups, and that is often
> a waste if the subject matter  is specific in the individual groups after a
> few followups. also, the more groups you crosspost in, the more the spam
> bots find not only new groups to post to, but new email addresses to send to
> as well.

So,   1) why did you cross post?
        2) why did your respond in November to a post dated in July?

Roy

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> "Matthew S. Carpenter" <msc1983@mac.com> wrote in message
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> | Biggobiggo@blue-win.ch07/25/2001 02:42 AM
> | > Now tell me: what is top-posting?
> |
> |
> | Hmmm...I'm not really all that sure what to make of your reply....I only
> | know what cross-posting is, but I don't see how cross-posting should be so
> | annoying unless its Spam (which could either be a meat which I find really
> | disgusting, or those annoying ads such as the ones for penis enlargement
> | which I actually find kind of humorous, who is so pathetic that they need
> a
> | large cock to raise their self-worth?) or flame wars (I HATE flame wars, I
> | see them as a big waste of time) I suppose it would be replying at the top
> | of a post rather than at the bottom..but if that is what it is then I
> would
> | say that you don't need to be a smart ass about it...unless its Spam they
> | might not necessarily know that people don't like what there doing....
> |
> | If you really don't like it when people reply to messages at the top of an
> | e-mail, then you should first try politely requesting that they refrain
> from
> | doing so.  If you do that I will not do it any more. However, being a
> smart
> | ass about it is a good way to piss people off and encourage them to keep
> | doing it.
> |
> | If I am incorrect in my assumption of what top-posting is then please do
> | correct me on it.
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