[SpamCop-List] Re: automation

[Steve Sybesma]

You're singing my tune John.

I've been posting to Usenet for 12 years now and I proudly don't
follow netiquette faithfully (as has been seen).

I know what 'netiquette' is, and I've seen how some people that push
the heck out of it to the point they often fail good 'netiquette'
themselves.

My view is that the most important netiquette of all is not to be rude
to
your fellow posters. Frankly, it's true that  top-posting can be viewed
as an easier way to read a post. I used to post the other way that the
browbeaters are indicating they want to see, but it's more
labor-intensive.
There's no reason I have to hit every point of their posts when I reply.


"John Richards" <jr70 at blackhole.invalid> wrote in message
news:d8ch4q$2j4$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> Cat wrote:
> >   You have to understand that
> > when you insist on top posting while everyone else is posting in
logical
> >  order with comments added below each quoted point and unnecessary
> > parts snipped out
>
> That's quite an assumption. Unfortunately "everyone else", even in
this
> newsgroup does not snip out all unnnecesssary parts. Even the post
> of yours that I'm replying to had so much quoted text that I had to
> scroll down to see all of the reply. I hate scrolling through messy
quoted
> text. I already was familiar with the comment you were responding to,
> so it wasn't necessary for me to read the quoted text. Unless you
> suffer from really poor recollection you shouldn't need to reread text
> you've read moments before in a prior post.
>
> -- 
> John Richards
>
>
>