sets and subsets

[Tim Roberts]

aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote:
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>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>A: Top-posting.
>Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet?

You know, it may be time for this crusade to end.  What you say is entirely
valid if a single Usenet post is read out of context.  However, when using
a threaded newsreader, as 90% of us do, top-posting allows me to read the
new content without moving my eyes.  I just press N, N, N to move to the
next message and scan the new content at the top of the message.  In this
particular thread, the content quickly grew larger than my newsreader's
preview pane, so bottom-posting requires me to move the focus to the
preview pane and scroll down to read.

Besides, the MOST annoying thing on Usenet is HTML posts.
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