RE: Top posting (Was: cell phone use in hospitals)

"Al Klein" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:40:17 GMT, "John Richards"
> <[email protected]> said in alt.cellular:
>
>>"Al Klein" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:06:31 GMT, "John Richards"
>>> <[email protected]> said in alt.cellular:
>
>>>>And 90% of the posters in Microsoft newsgroups top-post, what does that
>>>>tell you?
>
>>> That 90% of the posters in Microsoft newsgroups don't follow
>>> convention.
>
>>That doesn't explain *why* Microsoft posters do so. There must be
>>some intrinsic advantage, or else they wouldn't be doing it.
>
> The "intrinsic advantage" is that it's easier for those who are too
> lazy to move their cursors.

Why would Microsoft engineers and developers necessarily be lazier
than their non-Microsoft counterparts?

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John Richards

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<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>
> I recall when bottom reply was the standard form in email.
>
> When Eudora became popular, with its cursor set to the top and no "don't
> copy" command at the message reply level (elm asks me "copy message?"),
> top reply became popular.
>
> Top-reply was even called "Eudora-style" in the setup menus of other mail
> programs. Now the trend is back to bottom reply.

You see a trend toward bottom-reply in emails? I don't.
Probably 95% of the emails I see that have multiple responses are
top-replied.

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John Richards

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:07:59 GMT, David S
<[email protected]> said in alt.cellular:

>In Agent, when you get to the last screen of the post, the next press of
>the same key you've been using moves you to the next unread post. With
>PgDn, you have to switch to a different key, or worse, to the mouse.

If you had checked the headers you would have seen that I use Agent,
so I know which keys it takes. Try Esc, Down, Enter, which has become
so automatic for me over the years that I don't even think about it.

>BTW, Agent's reading pane also functions as a preview pane when you have
>the focus on the message list pane. Not that I often use it that way...

I only have one pane showing at a time, and have been running this way
almost since the beginning.

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 02:13:44 -0700, DevilsPGD <[email protected]>
said in alt.cellular:

>I've tried most, but so far the only one I really like for general
>usenet use is Agent.

I agree, for 2 reasons.

1) It's a real news client, unlike some other programs.

2) I've tried other real news clients, but I've used Agent too long to
be this comfortable with any other client.

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:39:02 GMT, Al Klein <[email protected]> chose to
add this to the great equation of life, the universe, and everything:

>On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:07:59 GMT, David S
><[email protected]> said in alt.cellular:
>
>>In Agent, when you get to the last screen of the post, the next press of
>>the same key you've been using moves you to the next unread post. With
>>PgDn, you have to switch to a different key, or worse, to the mouse.
>
>If you had checked the headers you would have seen that I use Agent,
>so I know which keys it takes. Try Esc, Down, Enter, which has become
>so automatic for me over the years that I don't even think about it.

That moves you to the next post in the list, whether or not you've already
read it. The same thing can be accomplished by just pressing D, if it's
really what you want to do. To repeat, the single-key-read moves you to the
next *unread* post (this can also be done by pressing N, which has the
advantage of being able to skip <space>ing through several screens of
untrimmed crap following a top post.

>>BTW, Agent's reading pane also functions as a preview pane when you have
>>the focus on the message list pane. Not that I often use it that way...
>
>I only have one pane showing at a time, and have been running this way
>almost since the beginning.

I *never* run Agent with only one pane showing. To each his own, I guess.

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Hello, John!

Thanks for the info on the naming of OE's executable. I always wondered why
it had that name.

Gregg Hill


"John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Al Klein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:51:38 GMT, "John Richards"
>> <[email protected]> said in alt.cellular:
>>
>>>"Al Klein" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>>>news:[email protected]...
>>>> Could you name some news clients that have "preview screens"?
>>>
>>>The one that is on more computers than any other, Outlook Express
>>
>> News clients. OE is an email client.
>
> Get off your high horse. OE is an email AND news client. In fact,
> Microsoft used to call OE "Internet Mail and News" when it came with
> Windows 95. The executable for OE is still called the same as it was in
> 1995: msimn.exe, an acronym for Microsoft Internet Mail and News.
>
> --
> John Richards