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(last one I swear) IF a thread gets to be that long, it belongs in a newsgroup or forum. And, personally, I don't like editing other folks' stuff, stupid or not, i think of their words as their property... (and I honestly can't figure out why I'm contributing to this thread:)) t On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Jonas Luster wrote: > * Todd Suiter sez: > > : People who top post actually bother you? Is the other way around for me, and > > It's not so much the people but the traffic. Top-Posting usually means > Fullquote. Almost no top-poste I know bothers to shorten the content > below his own $0.01. That said, let's just assume 10 top-posters with > reasonably long texts in a row and you've got from 10 to 100 times more > traffic than botton-postings. Multiply this by 1000 mailing list > subscribers or some 10.000 Newsservers and you add quite some traffic to > the 'net. > > Now let's just think for less than 3 seconds about the guys who make > Mailing Lists happen. These guys and gals do it - in most cases - out of > enthusiasm, paying bandwidth and server resources so _you_ can read and > post. Adding extra traffix to their tab does not strike me as social > behavior at all. > > I always saw Top/Bottom as some kind of age- (netwise) and > clue-indicator, the former being a sure sign of less than 3 years of > netizenship. That might just be me and should not influence your > preferences, tho. Neither should the fact that in most European and > American cultures text is read from top to bottom, assuming timelines > and question/response pairs associated with the flow of information we > receive and process. Unless you're an avvid Jeopardy fan, you might see > my point here, I guess. > > So, that makes three reasons not to Top-Post, one of which I consider > important. Just think about it, and then let's see how you like your new > life as a bottom-poster. >
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