From: Huge 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: 23 Apr 2007 07:31:59 GMT

On 2007-04-22, Calif Bill  wrote:
>
> "Magda"  wrote in message 
> news:vnim23h23ag6crkimap2mt52t1nmqt51tm@4ax.com...


>> I had no idea Usenet was *that* old.
>>
>
> Usenet is about that old, but OE is not.  The bottom posting came about 
> because we used KSR-33 Teletypes as input devices.  Was hard to edit the 
> received stream, and you typed at the bottom of the message.  The VT-52 CRT 
> monitors were similar, so you always got bottom posting.  So I guess most of 
> these people are living in the past.  I think top posting is nice for a 
> quick response.  Do not have to go the bottom of the message to see the 
> response. 

What you think is of no consequence. Bottom posting is the standard
and that's the end of it. English is read from top to bottom and it
makes way more sense to post that way. It would help if people deleted
irrelevant quoted text, though, which is the bit of bottom posting most
people forget.


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