Please show me the way oh great one...

"Jeff Grippe" wrote in message
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"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
news
I learned from Tom Sherman the proper way to post to Usenet. He was
always correct and quite meticulous as I could see from day one and so I
merely copied him.

This is typical of the sloppy thinking of those who act as you do. You
insist that your opinion is backed by an authoritative truth, and then we
find out later that you essentially, made it up.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead doing
it.

For a long time you have claimed that there is a "Strunk and White" of
Usenet style provided by Google. Now that you have been asked to produce
it, you say "I copied Tom Sherman".

I did the Google search you recommended and I read some the documents. If
you had done that you would find that top-posting is controversial. There
are absolutely some who say you shouldn't do it but there are others who
say that top-posting should not be universally condemned and that it has
its place.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead doing
it.

Here is the bottom line of this topic. Produce the document that you have
been resting your opinion on or cease to criticize people for how they
choose to post.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead doing
it.

You copied Tom Sherman. Good for you. I have no idea how long he has been
involved with Usenet. I do know that I have been involved with Usenet for
a long time and I was on "Chat BBS's" (which are not chat rooms as we
think of them today but rather they were text-only, topic based message
boards) before there was Usenet.

If we are just going to work on "oral tradition" then mine goes back quite
far.

I think you are guilty of everything that you accuse liberals of. For
someone who is "supposedly" as well educated as you claim to be (I don't
believe anything you say anymore. You are like "Weekly World News",
something to read strictly for entertainment), your thinking is weak. You
make claims of authority that you can't really substantiate and hope that
nobody will check.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead doing
it.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Ed, your endless repitition does not make it correct. I did the search and
what's more I read the results. Top-posting is not the universally regarded
evil that you claim it is. You obviously did not bother to read any opinion
that didn't agree with yours which is typical of your kind. If you read
"Knots" by R.D. Laing, I fear you took it a bit too seriously.

So go ahead and shout back your familiar "ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS". Heck
do it three or four times while your at it. Since the opinions (and that is
all they are is opinions) are there for people to read who choose to do the
search, then a thinking person will discover that a range of opinions
exists. If your claim ultimately rests on the authority of oral tradition
then mine goes back quite a bit further than yours.

Jeff

"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
...

"Jeff Grippe" wrote in message
...

"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
news
I learned from Tom Sherman the proper way to post to Usenet. He was
always correct and quite meticulous as I could see from day one and so I
merely copied him.

This is typical of the sloppy thinking of those who act as you do. You
insist that your opinion is backed by an authoritative truth, and then we
find out later that you essentially, made it up.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

For a long time you have claimed that there is a "Strunk and White" of
Usenet style provided by Google. Now that you have been asked to produce
it, you say "I copied Tom Sherman".

I did the Google search you recommended and I read some the documents. If
you had done that you would find that top-posting is controversial. There
are absolutely some who say you shouldn't do it but there are others who
say that top-posting should not be universally condemned and that it has
its place.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

Here is the bottom line of this topic. Produce the document that you have
been resting your opinion on or cease to criticize people for how they
choose to post.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

You copied Tom Sherman. Good for you. I have no idea how long he has been
involved with Usenet. I do know that I have been involved with Usenet for
a long time and I was on "Chat BBS's" (which are not chat rooms as we
think of them today but rather they were text-only, topic based message
boards) before there was Usenet.

If we are just going to work on "oral tradition" then mine goes back
quite far.

I think you are guilty of everything that you accuse liberals of. For
someone who is "supposedly" as well educated as you claim to be (I don't
believe anything you say anymore. You are like "Weekly World News",
something to read strictly for entertainment), your thinking is weak. You
make claims of authority that you can't really substantiate and hope that
nobody will check.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

Jeff,

I followed Ed's link and did not find a definitive answer. In fact,
they seem to talk about the original Usenet where top posting WAS
considered in poor taste, but with todays newsreaders top posting is,
to many, the perferred way in many instances such as this. Ed just has
too much short-term memory loss and shouldn't be on Usenet in the first
place, but he just doesn't get it.

Enjoy,

Perry Butler




Jeff Grippe wrote:
Ed, your endless repitition does not make it correct. I did the search and
what's more I read the results. Top-posting is not the universally regarded
evil that you claim it is. You obviously did not bother to read any opinion
that didn't agree with yours which is typical of your kind. If you read
"Knots" by R.D. Laing, I fear you took it a bit too seriously.

So go ahead and shout back your familiar "ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS". Heck
do it three or four times while your at it. Since the opinions (and that is
all they are is opinions) are there for people to read who choose to do the
search, then a thinking person will discover that a range of opinions
exists. If your claim ultimately rests on the authority of oral tradition
then mine goes back quite a bit further than yours.

Jeff

"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
...

"Jeff Grippe" wrote in message
...

"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
news
I learned from Tom Sherman the proper way to post to Usenet. He was
always correct and quite meticulous as I could see from day one and so I
merely copied him.

This is typical of the sloppy thinking of those who act as you do. You
insist that your opinion is backed by an authoritative truth, and then we
find out later that you essentially, made it up.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

For a long time you have claimed that there is a "Strunk and White" of
Usenet style provided by Google. Now that you have been asked to produce
it, you say "I copied Tom Sherman".

I did the Google search you recommended and I read some the documents. If
you had done that you would find that top-posting is controversial. There
are absolutely some who say you shouldn't do it but there are others who
say that top-posting should not be universally condemned and that it has
its place.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

Here is the bottom line of this topic. Produce the document that you have
been resting your opinion on or cease to criticize people for how they
choose to post.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

You copied Tom Sherman. Good for you. I have no idea how long he has been
involved with Usenet. I do know that I have been involved with Usenet for
a long time and I was on "Chat BBS's" (which are not chat rooms as we
think of them today but rather they were text-only, topic based message
boards) before there was Usenet.

If we are just going to work on "oral tradition" then mine goes back
quite far.

I think you are guilty of everything that you accuse liberals of. For
someone who is "supposedly" as well educated as you claim to be (I don't
believe anything you say anymore. You are like "Weekly World News",
something to read strictly for entertainment), your thinking is weak. You
make claims of authority that you can't really substantiate and hope that
nobody will check.

Do a search under "top posting" and you will come up with a plethora of
websites explaining why top posting is for the birds.

To get you started, go he

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&l...ng&btnG=Search

I used to have a lot of information on the evils of top posting saved to
My
Documents, but they are long gone. It is just so elementary I never
thought
I would be called upon to justify bottom posting. Trust me on this, top
posting is for idiots and scoundrels and you should not be caught dead
doing
it.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

"Jeff Grippe" wrote in message
...

ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!

Ed, your endless repitition does not make it correct. I did the search and
what's more I read the results. Top-posting is not the universally
regarded evil that you claim it is. You obviously did not bother to read
any opinion that didn't agree with yours which is typical of your kind. If
you read "Knots" by R.D. Laing, I fear you took it a bit too seriously.

So go ahead and shout back your familiar "ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS".
Heck do it three or four times while your at it. Since the opinions (and
that is all they are is opinions) are there for people to read who choose
to do the search, then a thinking person will discover that a range of
opinions exists. If your claim ultimately rests on the authority of oral
tradition then mine goes back quite a bit further than yours.

The preponderance of opinion is that top posting is wrong. But you are a
smart-ass New York Jew who cannot be told anything. I learned that much
about your type 50 years ago.

'Freewheeling' (Scott) not only posted totally correct, but as complete as
it is possible to get. But he was a scholar and a gentleman (a professor at
a university). However, I will admit that scholarly posting is too much for
a newsgroup which is why I have never done it. After all, there is no here
but us idiots!

Tom Sherman was the most correct poster ever to ARBR. The only fault I ever
found with his formatting is that he sometimes edited my messages too
severely. Also, his use of footnotes was overkill and was done only to
impress the idiots, of whom there is never a shortage on ARBR.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota

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ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS!

Jeff,

I followed Ed's link and did not find a definitive answer. In fact,
they seem to talk about the original Usenet where top posting WAS
considered in poor taste, but with todays newsreaders top posting is,
to many, the perferred way in many instances such as this. Ed just has
too much short-term memory loss and shouldn't be on Usenet in the first
place, but he just doesn't get it.

See my response to Jeff Grippe's message preceding yours.

I would add that it is just so reasonable and logical to bottom post that
any discussion of the issue is strictly for morons. We want the reader to
follow with crystal clarity who is saying what and in the proper order. Both
Perry and Jeff confuse Usenet, which has outside readers, with email, which
has no outside readers.

However, both Perry and Jeff now at least include the complete previous
message to which they are responding at the bottom of their messages, so
that does mitigate somewhat the seriousness of their offense. What I can't
stand are those who respond to a message and do not include any of the
previous message, not on top where it belongs, and not even at the bottom
where it does NOT belong.

It is impossible to edit a previous message when you top post. Very many
messages need to be edited as it is often quite pointless to post it
complete when you are narrowing the discussion down to a few specific
points. Elementary, my dear Watson!

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota