Sander deWaal wrote:

Pooh Bear said:

Do you *always* top post in this manner ?

Some do, yes.

If so, is it

a) to be annoying ?

Some do it for that reason.

b) you don't know any better ?

Some use Outlook Distress and do not know any better.

That may indeed be a disadvantage.

I checked out MS's offerings for newsgroups and rejected them as I felt
much better is available.


c) you don't care ?

Most top-posters don't I guess.

I suspect you're right, although I will confess that in rare cases a
top-post is at least inoffensive when you don't have to scroll down pages
to find out what's going on.


It's like reading an interview from bottom to top.

So true !

There's a regular in another NG who has a great tag-line that encapsulates
this concept perfectly but I forget it exactly now.


What top-posters don't realize, is that each post can and will most
likely be regarded by itself.
In my case, I purge read posts with every new retrieval.
Meaning, I don't get to see what post one's responding to.
There are certain users who don't attribute quotes.
Their posts become meaningless to me that way.

I don't think they intend their posts to be meaningless, but there you
go. OE users don't know better, despite countless referrings to using
Agent or an other decent newsclient.

For newsgroups like this one I actually use Netscape ( old 4.7 version ) .
It takes some beating. The presentation is simple, clear and easy to
grasp. Who needs more than that ?

I'm familiar with Agent but find it too *feature rich* if you like, to be
as practical in this instance.


Regds, Graham