***BOGO*** Re: spam increasing in mozilla.* newsgroups

[Daniel <dxmm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

GerardJan wrote:
> squaredancer wrote:
>> On 26.08.2008 15:48, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Ron Hunter 
>> to generate the following:? :
>>> squaredancer wrote:
>>>  
>>>> On 26.08.2008 03:06, CET - what odd quirk of fate caused  Ron Hunter 
>>>> to generate the following:? :
>>>>   
>>>>> Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T wrote:
>>>>>       
>>>>>> Carl Drud wrote:
>>>>>>           
>>>>>>> "Phillip Jones, CET" <pjones1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>>>> That's not necessarily so. Some don't do it because they get 
>>>>>>>> blasted
>>>>>>>> for snip any at all. Then in other groups they demand severe
>>>>>>>> snipping. Then others complain about while you snipped, you snipped
>>>>>>>> too much.
>>>>>>>>                     
>>>>>>> Those complaining should read the guidelines for these groups:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.mozilla.org/community/etiquette.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>                 
>>>>>> Wouldn't do any good. I've tried following snipping Guidelines and 
>>>>>> get blasted more for following them than Not. believe me I don't 
>>>>>> like any better than you going through ten pages of threads only 
>>>>>> to read "Me Too!" at the end.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So I've resigned myself to no matter what I do it will be wrong 
>>>>>> for someone . I'm tired of the hassle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             
>>>>> That is like the top or bottom posting thing.  Lots of opinions 
>>>>> both ways.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>>> too true, Ron.... but then again, only ONE opinion is the correct 
>>>> one 8-)
>>>>
>>>> reg
>>>>     
>>> Of course, mine, that is....
>>>
>>>
>>>   
>>
>> I was thinking more like "NOT the other one"
>>
>> reg
> 
> I don't like top post posting, but people don't to write so much, that 
> is why i like *snip*
> 

I look at top posting / bottom posting, this way.

In these groups people have problems, other people have suggested 
solutions, I have my suggestions.

First thing I need to know is "What is the problem?".

Then I need to know what others have suggested, so I don't say the same 
thing.

Then, maybe, what were the results of trying those suggestions?

Then I might be able to suggest something to try.


This process works real well if bottom posting is followed, i.e. problem 
followed by suggestion, followed by solution. All the way, reading the 
thread, I'm just going down, down, down (or like reading chapters of a 
book, first Chap 1, then Chap 2, etc..)

If the problem ends up at the bottom of the post, then I have to go up a 
little bit for the first suggestion, then up a bit more, and a bit more, 
and a bit more. A pain in the b****m!!

Just my opinion.

Daniel
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