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Old September 3rd 03, 08:41 PM
Alex Heney
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Default Why Is Austria Skiing Dirt Cheap For USA Right Now?

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 10:37:52 +0100, "Jonathan Gogan"
wrote:

ACE change your outlook settings to prefix each line of quoted text with a
,


I appreciate your comfort with the older conventions (such as diallup)


That implies there are newer ones. There aren't.

One reason for top-posting is I use a threading reader on a BB link.


There is ONE, and only ONE reason for top posting, no matter how you
dress it up, and that is just sheer laziness.

all news is quick-loaded so you can follow a conversation very easily
if people
1. reply right at the top
2 (pref) snip ALL other content.



But hardly anybody reading usenet reads it that way. We almost all
have a threading reader. Many people have BB. But hardly anyone just
sits there waiting for new posts to come through.

And most people try to follow quite a few groups.

Those two factors mean that most people do need some context in many
of the messages they read in any session. And if you need context, it
should all (the context and the responses) be in normal reading order.

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