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[OT] Top-posting (was: Re: Going to small claims court tomorrow against Sprint; any suggestions?)
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| Jonathan Kamens 2007-08-29, 7:33 am |
| Russell Patterson <me@privacy.net> writes:
>By the way, what reader do you use
>that puts the cursor on the bottom when you are reading or responding
>to a post?
XRN. It's in the header.
>I use Agent which, when scanning through posts in a
>logical thread, opens each up at the top.
Agent is wrong.
>If everybody bottom posts,
>without deleting earlier posts, I have to scroll through to the bottom
>each and every time.
Replying without trimming the text you're responding to is just as
wrong as top-posting.
>Is this a browser based vs dedicated newsreader thing?
No.
>Agent has been
>around for a long time,
XRN has been around for longer.
>Be
>careful, though you might become a newgroup junkie like me.
Dude, the odds are pretty good that I've been on Usenet since before
you were born. I even know how to spell "newsgroup".
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| Russell Patterson 2007-08-29, 10:33 am |
| On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:22:49 +0000 (UTC), jik@kamens.brookline.ma.us
(Jonathan Kamens) wrote:
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>Dude, the odds are pretty good that I've been on Usenet since before
>you were born. I even know how to spell "newsgroup".
I doubt that! What was your first home computer? VIC20 here. My
state of the art "hard drive" was a cassette tape. I was in my
thirties then.
To put it in perspective for the youngsters out there, I was working
on CT scanners in the late 70's that had memory boards that weighed
about 5 pounds each. They had 8k of memory in each one. We were
happy as hell when the first 64K memory board was introduced.
Contrast that to a 2 gig xD memory card for my 7.1 megapixel camera I
just bought!
Knowing how to spell something and typing it correctly are two
different things.
By the way, in the mid eighties I attended a couple of the Boston IBM
PC user group meetings. Thie was about the time the PCJr came out.
(What a mistake). Were you there about that time?
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