[ntp:questions] Re: This is tougher than I thought?

Per Hedeland per at hedeland.org
Thu Jan 26 23:05:37 UTC 2006


In article <0vadnTlvnLVYgkXeRVn-og at comcast.com> "Richard B. Gilbert"
<rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>Per Hedeland wrote:
>
>>As any decent newsreader should. Perhaps you could also look into
>>trimming the quotes, and putting your comments next to the thing they're
>>commenting?:-) Seeing that your posting style is at the other extreme
>>from Harlan's.:-) (With the "quote everything and put new text at one
>>end" style, I actually prefer that the new text is (shudder) placed at
>>the top...)
>>
>>  
>>
>Placing the new text at the top seems most logical to me as well but 
>usenet custom decrees otherwise. . . .

Ah, that explains it - you're a top-poster at heart!:-) You just need to
realize that when those that represent the "usenet custom" ask you not
to top-post, they don't mean "put all your text below the in-full quote
of the previous article instead of above it"... And it seems you already
have realized that - thanks!

--Per Hedeland
per at hedeland.org




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