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From: Ed on 15 Sep 2005 02:21 Habidasher wrote: > DelawareDave wrote: > >> Do any of these recommended readers have the following features: >> >> 1. Ability to put latest comments on top of posting. I don't want >> to trigger endless debate, I just want to look at the latest comments >> at the top. > > > Thunderbird does this. > >> 2. Have the "post pane" as a deep VERTICAL pane - as opposed to most >> which have post as a Horizontal pane at bottom. > > > The Stacked View Extension should be acceptable > https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&category=News%20Reading&numpg=10&id=937 It is best to bottom post to keep continutity in the thread. I hate it when I have to scroll up and down to read what the top-poster is replying to. The only thing worse is failing to quote at all. Ed
From: DelawareDave on 15 Sep 2005 06:50 Thanks for everyone's posts - the Stacked View Extension on Mozilla seems like it's going to work. Now if I could only "change the world" to become top posters.... (just joking !!!!) Dave On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 21:12:27 -0400, DelawareDave <davejunkmail123(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >Do any of these recommended readers have the following features: > >1. Ability to put latest comments on top of posting. I don't want >to trigger endless debate, I just want to look at the latest comments >at the top. > >2. Have the "post pane" as a deep VERTICAL pane - as opposed to most >which have post as a Horizontal pane at bottom. > >I like to skim tons of threads - nice long vertical pane with lastest >comments on top is ideal. > >Thanks ! > >On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:22:51 -0700, yar <yar(a)cavenet.com> wrote: > >>Does anyone have a good for windows xp newsreader recomendation? >>Thanks!
From: Peter Seiler on 15 Sep 2005 04:55 Ed - 15.09.2005 08:21 : [snipped] > It is best to bottom post to keep continutity in the thread. I hate it > when I have to scroll up and down to read what the top-poster is > replying to. The only thing worse is failing to quote at all. agreed. But another worse thing is unnecessary FULL quoting - a widespread terrible posting behavior. Another worse thing are the many misconfigured OEs which produces terrible linefeeds... -- by(e) PS spam will be killed
From: Ray on 15 Sep 2005 14:55 Peter Seiler <psprivate(a)despammed.com> wrote in news:432936F3.1060001(a)despammed.com: > Ed - 15.09.2005 08:21 : > > [snipped] > >> It is best to bottom post to keep continutity in the thread. <snip> > > agreed. But another worse thing is unnecessary FULL quoting - a > widespread terrible posting behavior. > > Another worse thing are the many misconfigured OEs which produces > terrible linefeeds... OE-QuoteFix http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
From: DelawareDave on 15 Sep 2005 22:22
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:56:10 -0400, Duddits <Duddits(a)Dreamcatcher.com> wrote: >On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 06:50:51 -0400, DelawareDave ><davejunkmail123(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >>Thanks for everyone's posts - the Stacked View Extension on Mozilla >>seems like it's going to work. >> >>Now if I could only "change the world" to become top posters.... (just >>joking !!!!) >> >>Dave > >Just a friendly FYI - repeated top posting will get you kill-filed in many >groups. > >Dud So my post here is a bottom post ? I hope I have this correct. I certainly want to follow standard protocol. Thanks for comments. |