*chuckle* For those who type, then quote....

[Steve Lamb]

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    From alt.humor.best-of-usenet.  I think this explains why I get pissed
off at people who type the reply, then quote, cutting nothing.  10+ years of
common and logical nettiquette down the drain.  Anyway..  Enjoy.  :)


Subject: Re: Backwards posting? 
From: Ken Tough <ken@objectech.co.uk>
Newsgroups: uk.media.radio.bbc-r4

Ken Tough
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what was becoming an extremely useful medium, is hard to fathom.
How companies like M$ can still manage to move backwards in

text in the messages.   It is complete, and utter, crap.
and there is no distinction whatsoever between quoted and new
and now everything in their messages is indented by 20 spaces,
A company we work with just "updated to the newest email software"

those great paragons of usenet friendliness, AOL and WebTV.
It seems to be a hideous trend encouraged by Micro$oft crap and

>on me at work.)
>default on the new version of Netscape [4.5] that has just been imposed 
>newcomers to newsnet don't realise it is odd. (It certainly was the 
>default in some new software (or new versions of old software), and  
>e. new stuff first) lately? All I can think of is that that might be the 
>newsgroup have started to appear in the reverse of the usual order (i. 
>Is there any reason why a significant number of postings in this
>
>Use my works address (john.gilliver@gecm.com) for a (much!) faster response!
>[* Send to G6JPG@soft255 - not nospam - if I'm posting or replying to a post. *

Apparently J. P. Gilliver (John) <junk@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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