Incidentally, top posting is a crime...................

No it isn't. I can see that in this group, the majority bottom post, but in
most others it's considered old fashioned and bad manners nowadays. To
bottom post forces the users of most newsreaders to scroll all the way down
to the bottom of a message to see the reply, either in a preview window or
with the message open. Noone does that with an e-mail message, so why do it
with a news post?

Using a web based interface is different I agree, making it impossible to do
the "right" thing (do you please the web users, or the newsreader users?)
But in most groups even the bottom posters admit that it's a hangover
nowadays, preferred by "old fogies". That's not my phrase BTW, it's one from
a bottom poster when he was asked why he still does it.

I prefer to favour newsreader users over web based users, because most
regular posters on most groups agree that web based interfaces are clunky
compared to a "proper" reader.

I will say though that most of the groups I post in are MS ones, and that
the MS web interface is the clunkiest around, so that may be why I see so
many people rejecting it.

Mark

"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:26:38 GMT, "Mark R Penn"
wrote:

So to boil all that down then, my suspicion that you have to reach a
certain
minimum standard of cable in order to get the best out of your system, but
that beyond that you'll make no difference at all, no matter how much you
spend, would be right?

Yes. And that minimum standard has nothing to do with what the cables
cost. Indeed, some very pricey 'designer' cables can be extremely
*poor* in technical terms.

And would it be at all true to say that the better the system, the more
information (wider frequency spread?) is extracted from the source, and
therefore the higher that minimum standard needs to be?

No.

I'd LOVE to see Stewarts test applied to the pebbles!

Me too, but it will never happen, because clowns like Glenn Richards
always duck out when challenged to *prove* their bull**** claims, even
when there's a decent cash prize involved.

Incidentally, top posting is a crime...................
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering