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What does it do?
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Re: What does it do? -
07-28-2003
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Top posting is where you post your new text at the top of the message. Aparently, it some sort of evil thing that causes you to fly planes into buildings and the like, but as this isn't alt.anal_retention it's possibly not worth giving a damn. As long as people trim their messages to they don't get up to the 800kb mark ( like another NG I freqeunt! ) I'm happy.  |
'top posting'
'spam'
'OT'
etc etc. I subscribe to another (like this one) great 'old motors' NG
inhabited by delightful people from all over the world, and the total
indifference to all above three sins results in great BP figures all round
TT
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indifference to all above three sins results in great BP figures all round |
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The Muffin Man
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"Tony Tynan" <ttynan (AT) iol (DOT) ie> wrote in message news:bg3q22$c2q$1 (AT) kermit (DOT) esat.net... indifference to all above three sins results in great BP figures all round And the BHP ;-) ? The Muffin Man |
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"Dan" <dan (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote in message news:WihVa.95382$JA5.2098396 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz... Get over it. Sorry, that message was to Matt who hates top posting sooo much. |
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"Tony Tynan" <ttynan (AT) iol (DOT) ie> wrote in message news:bg3q22$c2q$1 (AT) kermit (DOT) esat.net... indifference to all above three sins results in great BP figures all round And the BHP ;-) That stays in great shape too ie. Moderate BP = High BHP. Just look at |
Do I rest my case or do I rest my case?
TT
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not again with the top posting bullshit!!!!!! "Matt" <mattfluff (AT) solo (DOT) uk.net> wrote in message news:bg1kjb$t1g$1 (AT) hercules (DOT) btinternet.com... "Dan" <dan (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote in message news:U_XUa.94297$JA5.2067300 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz... It's the heater dial. Mine doesn't work. "af" <ford (AT) adrian131 (DOT) freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message news:bg1g2d$mf8$1 (AT) newsg4 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk... Just bought a Mini Mayfair 1991 and am wondering if anyone can tell me what the choke like cable next to the light switch is supposed to do. I have followed the cable to a valve on a water pipe but what is it for. Thanks Adrian Ford Its the heater control , its not a dial and DO NOT TOP POST ! |
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Dan <dan (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote: I didn't top post. all togther now Oh yes you did. I replied to the message as it was in my listing. I am the second message in the thread as far as I can see. That's not what top-posting means and it woudl make no sense to think it did, because the order of posts on a server can differ between servers. Top posting is pasting a reply before the quoted text. It is made worse when the quoted text consists of all of the post being replied to (including the signature) and the person posting a reply is too lazy or stupid to snip away irrelevant parts of the message. Carried to an extreme this results in stupid one-line answers which contain after them every single post in the thread. Doing it is at the very least a sign of a complete novice and at worst the sign of someone who simply doesn't care for the audience reading their tripe. Here's an explanation of why it is wrong: No. Does top posting make sense? An here are some URLs you should read, especially the last one which will let you download a repair for your copy of Outlook Express. http://fmf.fwn.rug.nl/~anton/topposting.html ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/news/doc/so1036.txt http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_chr0.htm http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm http://www.geocities.com/nnqweb/nquote.html http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html http://www.html-faq.com/faq.php?clue=topposting http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt http://www.jsiinc.com/newsgroup_document.htm http://www.malibutelecom.fi/yucca/usenet/brox.html http://www.newsreaders.com/ http://www.planefacts.ndirect.co.uk/group/advice/ http://www.plig.net/nnq/nquote.html http://www.star-one.org.uk/computer/format.htm http://www.usenet.org.uk/ukpost.html#s3 http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html Get your OE fixed here; http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/quotefix.php Perhaps you should get a real news server? You're showing your ignorance. The software that you use to read news (Outlook Express) is a news client. A news server is run by your ISP or some other third party, you could run one yourself but it seems fairly obvious from your headers that you are not. -- "I have come up with a sure-fire concept for a hit television show, which would be called `A Live Celebrity Gets Eaten by a Shark'." -- Dave Barry, "The Wonders of Sharks on TV" |
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"Makka" <makka1971 (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote: hey tim notice that these are ppl who never even post in here Ian Dalziel wrote: In where? This is posted to uk.rec.cars.classic - either you don't realise that or you're talking bollocks. Ahem. Iain, have you noticed that Tim, Makka and I are all unfamiliar faces, so to speak? That we are what *you* might describe as "ppl who never even post in here"? Yet Makka comments to Tim that *you* are the strangers? Now look closely at the headers for this post. Notice that "here" is in fact two seperate groups, alt.autos.mini and uk.rec.cars.classic |
crossposting. That was the point of my comment.
Makka, on the other hand, is using Outlook Express, which is why he is
posting imbecilities on uk.rec.cars.classic without realising it.
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Ahhh, now i understand. Hit the nail on the head. |
crime against all mankind to top post Bizarre. But what a lovely thread it
always produces.
Top posting is easy and simple to read and the plonker who keeps
'demonstrating' its lack of logic by reversing some text is just a goon. It
has no relevance at all.
Top or bottom, it makes no difference and many, many ng's operate quite
happily with either or a mix. Only the anally retentive and the hard of
understanding seem to have trouble with it.
Graeme
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"Dan" <dan (AT) here (DOT) com> wrote in message news:YFnVa.95785$JA5.2105146 (AT) news (DOT) xtra.co.nz... Ahhh, now i understand. Hit the nail on the head. For some reason it seems to be ok to bottom post without snipping but a crime against all mankind to top post Bizarre. But what a lovely thread it always produces. Top posting is easy and simple to read and the plonker who keeps 'demonstrating' its lack of logic by reversing some text is just a goon. It has no relevance at all. Top or bottom, it makes no difference and many, many ng's operate quite happily with either or a mix. Only the anally retentive and the hard of understanding seem to have trouble with it. Graeme |
involved in a trans-newsgroup arguement.
The Muffin Man
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