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Dylan Smith wrote: In article qEQod.662427$8_6.443178@attbi_s04, mike regish wrote: That's just dumb. Can you figure out what this reply is to? Or is it too difficult for you? The problem with top posting is: (a) see witty earlier comment where someone wrote a conversation bottom-to-top (b) the vast majority (like 99.9%) of top posters do not trim what they are quoting. Usenet isn't email, and repeated top-posting leads to two line comments on top of 50K long top-posted trails of redundant messages. Now you might say 'well, 50K - big deal' but replicated across tens of thousands of news servers... not to mention most people STILL are not on broadband and quote a few still pay for dialup by the minute. A large NG with many top posted threads can soon add up to megabytes of untrimmed quotes that a modem user must download (and possibly pay for). And the vast majority (like 99.9%) of bottom posters DO trim...? |
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