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> yes, but 98% of those aren't out yet.
>
> "Inferno" <magicmonster@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
> news:424b958c$0$12997$dbd49001@news.wanadoo.nl...
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> Check out the video
>
> http://ds.ign.com/objects/697/697509.html
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> Check out the video
>
> http://ds.ign.com/objects/697/697509.html
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> 1) WTF is "posting on top"? All I did was respond to a post
> 2) Puzzle games: Polarium, Zoo Keeper , Pac-Pix , Yoshi Touch &
> Go , WarioWare: Touched , Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits

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> 1. Don't post on top
> 2. You tell me how many puzzle games are out for the DS

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> sardu wrote:
>
>
> "Posting on top", or as it's more commonly known: "Top posting" is what
> you just did, and I - for example - did not. It's common practice to use
> manners when conversing, and putting your replies *after* the quote you're
> replying to is considered good manners.
>
> Unfortunately both Outlook Express and Google's GMail get it the wrong way
> round, and put your cursor at the top of the message, thus encouraging you
> to just type away and hit "send" without putting any thought in.
> Fortunately though, it only takes a second or two to move to the bottom
> (or wherever is appropriate) and type there instead.
>
> Many, many people get very annoyed at this "top posting" behaviour. The
> person who you replied to posted correctly - at the end. You replied at
> the top, and anyone wanting to see what you replied to would have had to
> scroll all the way down to the bottom - which is another point:
>
> Quoting. In general, you should only include enough of the previous
> message to get a context of what you're talking about. Both you (and the
> poster you replied) to failed to snip the larger amount of now-irrelevant
> text, which forces you to scroll through a lot of dross to get to the meat
> of the message. Had you bottom-posted as you should, you'd still have to
> scroll due to the large amount on unnecessary text you didn't snip out.
>
> The exchange should have looked something like this:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> "Inferno" <magicmonster@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
> news:4250ed84$0$48343$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl...
>
>
> 1) WTF is "posting on top"? All I did was respond to a post
> 2) Puzzle games: Polarium, Zoo Keeper , Pac-Pix , Yoshi Touch & Go ,
> WarioWare: Touched , Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> You can see that because the message has been properly snipped, you don't
> need to scroll through. And your reply now makes sense - his questions
> appear *before* your answers, as they would do in a real conversation.
>
> This means that anyone coming along to the thread anew would be able to
> pick up the gist of what's going on with little difficulty, whereas with
> no snipping and "top posting" you can quickly become lost. Although many
> people do find top-posting to be annoying, the people who do it tend to
> believe that it doesn't matter - mostly because *they* know what they're
> on about. These sorts of people don't think of others.
>
> So decide which you want to be - do you want to top post? do you want to
> trim your quotes or not? do you want to bottom post? If you choose to snip
> correctly and bottom post, you'll not get flamed for it. If you top-post
> and don't snip, then you'll likely find that wherever you go someone will
> whine at you.
>
> I don't advocate either way for *you* - I have my preferences and stick to
> them (even though I use OE), but I wouldn't want to force them on anyone
> else. However, the excuse for not sticking to the "etiquette" that has
> been established since UseNet was born - simply because your choice of
> newsreader encourages you to ignore those guidelines - is no excuse at all
> really.
>
> Now watch as this sparks off another top vs bottom posting argument :-)
>
> D.
>

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> "Paul Dunn" <paul.dunn4@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:TVC5e.16818$vv2.10120@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...

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> Ok thanks =)

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> (Like this?)

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> Outlook threads conversations
> together in a treeview, but AFAIK it's the only newsreader that does except
> GoogleGroups (and yes, they're the two most broken newsreaders there are).

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> 1) WTF is "posting on top"? All I did was respond to a post
> 2) Puzzle games: Polarium, Zoo Keeper , Pac-Pix , Yoshi Touch &
> Go , WarioWare: Touched , Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits

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> 1. Don't post on top
> 2. You tell me how many puzzle games are out for the DS

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> sardu wrote:
>
>
> "Posting on top", or as it's more commonly known: "Top posting" is what
> you just did, and I - for example - did not. It's common practice to use
> manners when conversing, and putting your replies *after* the quote you're
> replying to is considered good manners.
>
> Unfortunately both Outlook Express and Google's GMail get it the wrong way
> round, and put your cursor at the top of the message, thus encouraging you
> to just type away and hit "send" without putting any thought in.
> Fortunately though, it only takes a second or two to move to the bottom
> (or wherever is appropriate) and type there instead.
>
> Many, many people get very annoyed at this "top posting" behaviour. The
> person who you replied to posted correctly - at the end. You replied at
> the top, and anyone wanting to see what you replied to would have had to
> scroll all the way down to the bottom - which is another point:
>
> Quoting. In general, you should only include enough of the previous
> message to get a context of what you're talking about. Both you (and the
> poster you replied) to failed to snip the larger amount of now-irrelevant
> text, which forces you to scroll through a lot of dross to get to the meat
> of the message. Had you bottom-posted as you should, you'd still have to
> scroll due to the large amount on unnecessary text you didn't snip out.
>
> The exchange should have looked something like this:
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> "Inferno" <magicmonster@wanadoo.nl> wrote in message
> news:4250ed84$0$48343$dbd4d001@news.wanadoo.nl...
>
>
> 1) WTF is "posting on top"? All I did was respond to a post
> 2) Puzzle games: Polarium, Zoo Keeper , Pac-Pix , Yoshi Touch & Go ,
> WarioWare: Touched , Mr. Driller: Drill Spirits
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> You can see that because the message has been properly snipped, you don't
> need to scroll through. And your reply now makes sense - his questions
> appear *before* your answers, as they would do in a real conversation.
>
> This means that anyone coming along to the thread anew would be able to
> pick up the gist of what's going on with little difficulty, whereas with
> no snipping and "top posting" you can quickly become lost. Although many
> people do find top-posting to be annoying, the people who do it tend to
> believe that it doesn't matter - mostly because *they* know what they're
> on about. These sorts of people don't think of others.
>
> So decide which you want to be - do you want to top post? do you want to
> trim your quotes or not? do you want to bottom post? If you choose to snip
> correctly and bottom post, you'll not get flamed for it. If you top-post
> and don't snip, then you'll likely find that wherever you go someone will
> whine at you.
>
> I don't advocate either way for *you* - I have my preferences and stick to
> them (even though I use OE), but I wouldn't want to force them on anyone
> else. However, the excuse for not sticking to the "etiquette" that has
> been established since UseNet was born - simply because your choice of
> newsreader encourages you to ignore those guidelines - is no excuse at all
> really.
>
> Now watch as this sparks off another top vs bottom posting argument :-)
>
> D.
>

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> "Paul Dunn" <paul.dunn4@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:TVC5e.16818$vv2.10120@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net...

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> Ok thanks =)

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> (Like this?)