Re: ASCII Art Fart for Tue, 2004 Nov 9

_.-In alt.ascii-art, Ray Costanzo [MVP] wrote the following -._
> I see things as such:

That is why you cut out the stuff you arn't replying too.

This:
> Hi, how are you?
> I'm fine, thanks.  You?
> I'm also fine.  How is your cat?
> Oh, my cat passed away.  :[
> Yikes!  I'm really sorry.
> Yeah, it sucks.
> Are you going to get a new one?
> Yes, I bought one on Ebay.
> Alright, well good luck with that.
> Thanks.

246 chars 

Becomes
> my cat passed away.  :[
<snip>
> Are you going to get a new one?
> Yes, I bought one on Ebay.
> Alright, well good luck with that.

124 chars
Half as much.
And over the course of 7 days the context is still there.

    A: Because it fouls the order in which people
    read text.
    Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
    A: Top-posting.
    Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet
    e-mail?
		-- ozbear

And there is a reason you keep having this debate.  Because top
posters are a nuisance.  Thy do not trim.  If top posters just
bothered to trim their posts you could probibly cut the deja archive
system requirments in half and the drive space could probibly be cut
in a 1/4th.  S->N would go up dramatically.  Don't stop top posting
because you know it pisses people off, stop doing it because life and
the usenet isn't about you.  It is about others that read what you
write and when you top post you waste more peoples time than you save
them.

Here is a link I put together some time ago on the subject:
<url:http://asciipr0n.com/fp/linux/top-posting.txt>

Just think for a moment:  Almost every arcive or hosting service for
mailing lists and usenet has an anti-top-posting policy.  Things also
generally on the list are trolling, fraud and talking about illegal
things.  They all agre on those 4 things.  Top posting is seen by the
majority of the people in-the-know as one of the 4 deadly sins of
lists.  Even MS says in their faqs that it is bad.

People get killfiled for it.  I have killfiled people for it
in other groups.  Every person who posts replies in this group other
than yourself is a non-top-poster.  We all thing ASCII is great.  We
all know top posting is bad.  Beyond that we probibly agree on
nothing.[0]  Yet you seem to think your preferance to not trim and to
top post because it is convineiant for you is all fine and dandy.

[0] lucinda or currier?
emacs or vi or notepad?
ab or ob?

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