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Fundamentally speaking, the nature of the question is similar to this
question: Which gear should I use when driving a car?

One can spend his/her entire life to debate which gear is the best but it
doesn't answer the question at all.

The answer is, it depends on the situation. So the first step is to
understand the purpose of each gear before determining which gear to use and
under what circumstances.

Positing style is just part of writing style which is part of communication
methods.

A good writer always think from a reader's perspective not from his/her
preferences.
 
I have been using the computer since 1983, I was introduce to USENET in
through MS Windows DOS 3
I'm not a newbie and just because I like top post does not make me one.
Maybe you have a way to shell into a dos environment
that allows you to see the news posts in a kind of stream that you can just
scroll though.
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All newsreaders that I know of let you do that. I use Forté Agent, and
I keep it set to hide already read messages. So I just scroll through
those I haven't read yet.
 
Usenet etiquette according to whom? The same simplistic techno-fascists who
think that "man reads from top to bottom" is sufficient reason to impose
such rules? Not only is it simplistic and jingoistic, it's irrelevant. Once
again, how often do you actually read the quoted content before starting in
on the new text? Not very often, I'll bet. Approaching never, I'll bet.
Funny thing is, seems like the ones who scream about it the most are not
even close to belonging to the elite, if wrong, cadre of technocrats that
labeled it "etiquette". Just the opposite, I'll bet that crowd would toss
the likes of you out the door as soon as you opened your mouth, and rush to
hold a press conference to denounce any implied association.
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Congrats: You've now successfully identified yourself as belonging in
the "clueless newbie" category.
 
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