At Friday 19/1/2007 18:43, Carroll, Barry wrote:
Secondly, can someone point me to the Standard Usenet Convention that
mandates against top-posting. This is not sarcasm; I would really like
to see it.
There are some guidelines, like RFC 1855 (not a real standard, or
enforced in any way):
http://www.faqs.org/ftp/rfc/rfc1855.txt
"If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
summarize the original AT THE TOP OF THE MESSAGE, or include just
enough text of the original to give a context (...) But do not
include the entire original!" (capitals added by me).
You see, I recently returned to Usenet after a LONG absence.
When I was last a regular Usenet citizen the Internet was new, GUI
interfaces were experimental and the World Wide Web didn't exist yet.
Newsreader software was text-based. Top-posting was the common
practice, because it was the most convenient: you didn't have to page
through an arbitrarily large number of messages, most of which you'd
already read umpteen times, to get to the new stuff you were interested
in.
Really? Top posting a common practice? I'm not a youngster either and
I've never seen top posting as a *norm* but an exception.
Old newsreaders had a new/quoted ratio, and enforced it to be rather
high - so it was not easy to forget to trim the quoted text.
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html
Digging a bit one can find some old recommendations, like the Big
Dummy's Guide to the Internet (1993):
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/bdgtti/bdgtti_2.html
Or people puzzled on how this works:
http://groups.google.com/group/news.newusers.questions/browse_thread/thread/a75b1f4cfe470276/b38f62fc633db61e
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