IDE HD, pls help

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There is no rule to reply at the bottom.
Just a matter of (your) personal preference and others may like to reply
at the top.
Many time they is no need to read further and won't become confused.
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Tell us this: When you go to a store and there is a line at
the counter, do you need a big poster that reads:
"Rule: Get a place at the back of the line and move
forward when it's your turn."

Is it just a matter of preference if you would rather get in
the back of the line instead of the front or are some things
obvious to any sane person?

If you go into a restroom, is there a sign with a rule that
tells you where to relieve yourself? Some things seem easy
enough to understand that we don't feel the need to state
them constantly, it would mean that even the most simple of
things in life had a 200 page rule book attached.

IF there is "no need to read further", then the irrelevant
part that doesn't need read should be snipped out of the
post.
 
Here a nice reaction, I found some time ago, on a similar discussion.
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Except Bruce Chambers is a MS shill and actively promotes
the OE posting flaw because MS designed it.

<QUOTE>
Subject:
Re: Top Posting
From:
"Bruce Chambers" <[email protected]>
Date:
Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:44:40 -0700
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers

Greetings --

"Top-posting" is placing the reply to an earlier post at the top,
as I've done. This is the default behavior of some news readers, such
as Outlook Express.
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Outlook Express is not a news reader, it is an email client
with only partial news reader functionality tacked on, and
unfortunately correct posting sequence was one of the many
features omitted.

Some people prefer top-posting, while others
prefer bottom-posting (as the term implies, placing replies _below_
the original message.)
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Actually it's a matter of the forum, keeping a consistent
format. If every individual were left to do whatever they
"prefer" without any regard for the conventions, we'd have
far more chaos than just whether people were top or bottom
posting.


While I think the issue is largely a matter of personal taste and
reading convenience, some people get quite fanatical about it,
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.... and yet he made a special post to address it so he is
equally fanatical about his point of view.
claiming years of precedence for bottom-posting as the only "proper"
way to do it.
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Well yes there is this direct evidence, that Bruce tried to
shrug off but there is a more clear reason in that it is
just as a conversation flows that your response to someone
comes after what they said (unless you have a time
machine?).

It all reminds me of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's
Travels," and the wars between the Big-Endians and the Small-Endians
(iow, which end of a boiled egg should be broken first).

Bruce Chambers
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That would be a sign that none of the relevant differences
were being considered. As an example, reformat this post I
just made, putting all the text I wrote together at the top
instead of at the bottom of the portion being replied to.
It will be obvious why one way works far better than the
other.

To those who think sometimes the reply wasn't directly
related to the prior post, they had no reason to keep the
prior text then, probably not even to reply to the post they
did at all instead of correctly bottom-posting to a more
applicable post instead.

If you can't use usenet properly, find a forum where they
prefer the same as you. It's a wide web out there, pretty
silly to stay where you're bucking the whole point of usenet
which was the plain text and bottom-posted style it uses -
opposed to other venues.
 
[snip]
"Top-posting" is placing the reply to an earlier post at the top,
as I've done. This is the default behavior of some news readers, such
as Outlook Express.
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Incidentally, I'm using the flawed outlook express now and I don't seem to
have placed my reply above everything else! I find that if one clicks the
mouse cursor near where your reply is supposed to go, then when you start
typing, the text appears in the right place. Fantastic - you should try it!
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Their excuse is just nonsense, doing anything else on a
computer they would have no problem and consider the effort
trivial to put their cursor where they want it. They're
looking for some way to justify what they are doing wrong
because they know they need to try to find some defense.
Usenet just isn't email but for that matter if they always
top-post in emails then their emails are going to have low
readability a lot of the time as well.

It's funny that "default position" means anything to them.
I don't recall the last time I needed to use the restroom
and did so in my "default position" instead of moving to a
more appropriate area.
 
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