In *most others*?? Did you check them all?

My apologies - should have said most others I subscribe to, mostly MS PC
based ones.

Only when the respondent is too dumb to operate their delete key.

Which removes the context for others. If you top post you can do what I'm
doing here, copy and paste things you want to respond to specifically, yet
still leave the full context below for everyone else. That avoids the issue
where someone replies to a thread after the messages have been removed from
the servers, and all you see is a single message with "" in the subject.
I see many many messages that just say something like:

" Pocket Informant won't uninstall

So and so wrote:

So can I just change that registry key?

Yes, I think you can do that, though it's not supported officially"

Which makes no sense at all without the FULL context which snipping has
removed.

Anyway, if that's the norm on this group, I'll try to comply. I object
though to being told that the method used here is an absolute for everyone.
It isn't, and a quick Google this afternoon shows that top and bottom
posting have roughly equal supporters, and most people are tolerant enough
to just live with the lack of a definitive judgement on it.

Mark


"Wally" wrote in message
. ..
Mark R Penn wrote:

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.

In *most others*?? Did you check them all?


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, ...

Only when the respondent is too dumb to operate their delete key.


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