What in the HELLp is wrong with MS?

John Bokma wrote:
Robert Moir wrote:
Some of us know enough not to assume the opinion of an entire group

you haven't asked the entire group, so your reasoning is flawed.

from that of one person,

If you read a bit better, and didn't let your biased narrow mindness
get in its way (again very likely) you would have found more people.

"More people" what?

My point was that you seem to be saying that all MVPs are clueless about
usenet because one or two prefer top posting.

I'm a MVP. I don't prefer top-posting. Speaking of "biased narrow mindness",
hows that assumption of yours doing now?


"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. This will
make sure readers understand when they start to read your response."

Absolutely, I agree.

Robert Moir wrote:

John Bokma wrote:

My point was that you seem to be saying that all MVPs are clueless
about usenet because one or two prefer top posting.

http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/posting.htm

"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. This will
make sure readers understand when they start to read your response."

Absolutely, I agree.

Thanks, and apologies for what I earlier wrote about you.

My (still valid point) is that top posting adds a *huge* overhead, which
results in a huge number of resources being wasted. Quite a lot of
people keep Usenet running voluntarily, at minimal costs. Some people
even lose money because they help Usenet running.

For people who can't do the math, say the original message is 1K, and
each reply is 1K. With top posting, message n is n K, of which very
likely (n - 2)K is wasting bandwidth.

Why throw away all that money? Just because a few want to "save" time?
While wasting more time *and* money of many other people?

It's the egoistic, self centered approach one sees in huge parts of the
1st World, growing and growing.

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