kony <spam@spam.com> wrote
> JAD <JOHN DOE@PORN_ADDY_ HARVESTER.com> wrote

>> bottom posting is always wrong when TOLD
>> to do it by a turd damn usenet nazi, GFY

> Nope.

Yep.

> It's a bit like littering in your yard.

Nope, NOTHING like.

> Do it once and it's no big deal, but keep doing it and
> have your neighbors do it too, and it becomes a mess.

Mindlessly silly. There are many situations in which top posting
makes more sense than bottom posting, most obviously when
the quoted material covers quite a bit of space. With top posting
you see the new material immediately, with bottom posting you
have to scroll thru the quoted material to see the new material.

And dont try to claim that the posted material should be trimmed,
with modern high bandwith systems it makes a lot more sense to
not trim so the entire context is immediately available in the post
if its required.

> The only reason people think shunning usenet conventions

There is no such 'convention', just mindless prats that demand things
be done they way they prefer to see them done. Always mindlessly.

> is not a big deal is that for the most part, usenet
> works because people DON'T shun them,

usenet actually works because both approaches
have their place. Interleaved comments in spades.

> because the majority of the conventions were still being used.

Wrong again. Email sees top posting more
common than not, and it works fine anyway.

> The more you make it an anything-goes environment

Thats ALWAYS been what usenet has always been.

Its as close to pure anarchy as you will ever see.

> without consistency, the worse it works.

Mindlessly silly with something like top posting or quoting.

> Since we, as-in everyone reading usenet, has an interest
> in being able to do so, it is senseless to argue against the
> very conventions that make it the medium you chose to use.

Completely off with the fucking fairys as always. usenet isnt
useful because so many bottom post, its useful because of
the content, stupid. The different approaches people take
with posting has nothing to do with how useful it is.

I personally prefer interleaved posting the bulk of the time,
but I'm not stupid enough to try demanding that everyone
should post like that because it aint gunna happen.

> If you wanted email or a web forum instead, go use those!

If I decide that top posting is appropriate, I will use it and
make an obscene gesture in the general direction of silly
little prats that dont actually have a clue about anything at all.

> Is it being a nazi to mention postings?

Its certainly being a nazi to demand that everyone who top posts
stop doing that. Thats all that prat ever does, never even makes
any contribution what so ever on anything else at all, ever.

> If nobody mentions the conventions, how will they be
> maintained when some are too thick to notice them?

They wont, and things will carry on fine regardless, stupid.

And you're the one so thick that you cant even manage
to grasp that top posting can be appropriate and that
usenet is a close to pure anarchy as you well ever see.

> It's not as though an observant person can't
> see usenet is a bottom-posting medium

Corse it isnt. Plenty interleave post.

> with exception of a few groups which cling desperately
> to Microsoft's deficient email reader for the wrong task.

There's plenty that top post that dont use that particular usenet reader.

And it isnt an email reader anyway.