Earle Horton

Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it. From
what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has allowed
me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of employees,
standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World Domination!"
and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep the
dream alive.

Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.

Earle

"billy ray" <billy_ray@fuseSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:2a5ff$43c13da9$4831b233$21072@FUSE.NET...
> I certainly have my problems with Microsoft and Ronald McDonald about the
> quality of their products.
>
> I'm not a big fan of Satan either but he is generally straightforward
about
> being evil....
>
>
> "Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
> news:43c104ee$0$10330$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
> >I vote for top posting. After spending a semester in Spain, and seeing
> > posters and graffiti complaining about "capitalismo", a Ronald McDonald
> > who
> > looks a bit like Satan, Microsoft, and all the horrible things that have
> > been done to the beautiful and pure Spanish culture by avaricious
> > estadounidenses, canadienses, and alamenes, I think that we need all the
> > support we can get. If this means going along with Outlook Express'
> > sometimes quirky ideas of posting format, so be it. This reasoning is
as
> > logical as anything that I have seen in this thread.
> >
> > Earle
> >
> > "Old Crow" <walliscrow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> > news:agv1s1duv859v35l82h9h6if25737tkjkk@4ax.com...
> >> On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:45:57 -0800, Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> >I suspect this may almost be generational. The folks who tend to use
> >> >Outhouse Express as a news reader probably got used to the default
> >> >follow up location, whereas those who got used to the older pure
> >> >character mode readers and stuff like Forte' Agent got used to that.
> >> >
> >> >As for where "new" information belongs, I personally prefer in context
> >> >where a comment about a particular paragraph is put right after that
> >> >paragraph.
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> What bothers me is when people don't quote back any part of the
> > message,
> >> >> With my deteriorating mental abilities if is sometimes difficult to
> > remember
> >> >> previous posts.
> >>
> >> Well, I know bottom posting helps in the case(which happens all too
> >> often, still)where I see replies to a post before I actually see the
> >> original post. Keeps everybody's thoughts in order so to speak.
> >>
> >> If you've got OE set to text only instead of HTML, it's not that big a
> >> thing to bottom post there, too. Forte' Agent(or Free Agent in my
> >> case)does it automatically.
> >> --
> >> Old Crow
> >> '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl"
> >> '74 XLH chopper(somebody else's baby now)
> >> BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM, DOF#51, DH#2
> >> "There's only 1 RE"
> >
> >
>
>

Peter Parker

In article <43c1440d$0$31807$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com >,
Earle Horton <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote:
>Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it. From
>what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
>"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
>takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has allowed
>me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
>posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of employees,
>standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World Domination!"
>and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep the
>dream alive.
>
>Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.
>
>Earle

Hey Earle-

What made you change to top-posting? Back in 1990 it appears you were a
bottom-poster. I think I like the old Earle better. The new one is too
progressive for me. Next thing you know, he will want to divorce his
wife and marry a man. :-) LOL! (If he's married :)

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/90-01-009


--
Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...

Peter Parker

In article <43c1440d$0$31807$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com >,
Earle Horton <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote:
>Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it. From
>what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
>"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
>takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has allowed
>me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
>posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of employees,
>standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World Domination!"
>and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep the
>dream alive.
>
>Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.
>
>Earle

Hey Earle-

What made you change to top-posting? Back in 1990 it appears you were a
bottom-poster. I think I like the old Earle better. The new one is too
progressive for me. Next thing you know, he will want to divorce his
wife and marry a man. :-) LOL! (If he's married :)

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/90-01-009


--
Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...

Peter Parker

In article <43c1440d$0$31807$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com >,
Earle Horton <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote:
>Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it. From
>what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
>"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
>takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has allowed
>me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
>posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of employees,
>standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World Domination!"
>and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep the
>dream alive.
>
>Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.
>
>Earle

Hey Earle-

What made you change to top-posting? Back in 1990 it appears you were a
bottom-poster. I think I like the old Earle better. The new one is too
progressive for me. Next thing you know, he will want to divorce his
wife and marry a man. :-) LOL! (If he's married :)

http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/90-01-009


--
Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...

Earle Horton

This just goes to show what can happen to people, who have too much spare
time. The post attributed to me was made, while I was still under the
influence of the liberal commie university crowd, from which I had been
recently liberated by Mammon's, I mean Microsoft's, human resources
department. The post in question was also made from "rn", a UNIX news
reader which simply made it easier to bottom-post.

Bend with the prevailing winds, and you will never have a bad hair day.

Earle

"Peter Parker" <nospam@zero.com> revealed in message
news:43c14a62_1@nntp2.nac.net...
> In article <43c1440d$0$31807$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com >,
> Earle Horton <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote:
> >Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it.
From
> >what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
> >"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
> >takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has
allowed
> >me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
> >posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of
employees,
> >standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World
Domination!"
> >and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep
the
> >dream alive.
> >
> >Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.
> >
> >Earle
>
> Hey Earle-
>
> What made you change to top-posting? Back in 1990 it appears you were a
> bottom-poster. I think I like the old Earle better. The new one is too
> progressive for me. Next thing you know, he will want to divorce his
> wife and marry a man. :-) LOL! (If he's married :)
>
> http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/90-01-009
>
>
> --
> Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...

Earle Horton

This just goes to show what can happen to people, who have too much spare
time. The post attributed to me was made, while I was still under the
influence of the liberal commie university crowd, from which I had been
recently liberated by Mammon's, I mean Microsoft's, human resources
department. The post in question was also made from "rn", a UNIX news
reader which simply made it easier to bottom-post.

Bend with the prevailing winds, and you will never have a bad hair day.

Earle

"Peter Parker" <nospam@zero.com> revealed in message
news:43c14a62_1@nntp2.nac.net...
> In article <43c1440d$0$31807$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com >,
> Earle Horton <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote:
> >Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it.
From
> >what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
> >"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
> >takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has
allowed
> >me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
> >posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of
employees,
> >standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World
Domination!"
> >and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep
the
> >dream alive.
> >
> >Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.
> >
> >Earle
>
> Hey Earle-
>
> What made you change to top-posting? Back in 1990 it appears you were a
> bottom-poster. I think I like the old Earle better. The new one is too
> progressive for me. Next thing you know, he will want to divorce his
> wife and marry a man. :-) LOL! (If he's married :)
>
> http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/90-01-009
>
>
> --
> Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...

Earle Horton

This just goes to show what can happen to people, who have too much spare
time. The post attributed to me was made, while I was still under the
influence of the liberal commie university crowd, from which I had been
recently liberated by Mammon's, I mean Microsoft's, human resources
department. The post in question was also made from "rn", a UNIX news
reader which simply made it easier to bottom-post.

Bend with the prevailing winds, and you will never have a bad hair day.

Earle

"Peter Parker" <nospam@zero.com> revealed in message
news:43c14a62_1@nntp2.nac.net...
> In article <43c1440d$0$31807$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.com >,
> Earle Horton <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote:
> >Sure, but it spoils the joke if you let foreigners complain about it.
From
> >what I have seen here, this part of the world hasn't found out that
> >"cigarettes are bad" or "drinking can be dangerous" either. If all it
> >takes, to maintain the honor of the American institution, that has
allowed
> >me to live without working, for the past eleven years, is a little top
> >posting, then I will allow it. I remember fondly, thousands of
employees,
> >standing around the lagoon, back of Building 8, shouting "World
Domination!"
> >and "Better Dead than (Novell) Red!" I am just doing my part, to keep
the
> >dream alive.
> >
> >Freedom to post, is freedom to top-post.
> >
> >Earle
>
> Hey Earle-
>
> What made you change to top-posting? Back in 1990 it appears you were a
> bottom-poster. I think I like the old Earle better. The new one is too
> progressive for me. Next thing you know, he will want to divorce his
> wife and marry a man. :-) LOL! (If he's married :)
>
> http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/90-01-009
>
>
> --
> Jeeps and dubs and everything's nice...

Tomes

I don't think that there is anything quirky about top posting. It is how
the program works, it presents the relevant information up top where one
looks when the message is opened so one does not need to scroll through all
the stuff that one has already read in the previous posts, and it is how
anyone in the corporate world is used to handling it. In corporate America
(the huge chemical company I worked for for 25 years) at least, _no one_
bottom posts. No one at all.
Tomes

"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:43c104ee$0$10330$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
> I vote for top posting. After spending a semester in Spain, and seeing
> posters and graffiti complaining about "capitalismo", a Ronald McDonald
who
> looks a bit like Satan, Microsoft, and all the horrible things that have
> been done to the beautiful and pure Spanish culture by avaricious
> estadounidenses, canadienses, and alamenes, I think that we need all the
> support we can get. If this means going along with Outlook Express'
> sometimes quirky ideas of posting format, so be it. This reasoning is as
> logical as anything that I have seen in this thread.
>
> Earle
>
> "Old Crow" <walliscrow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:agv1s1duv859v35l82h9h6if25737tkjkk@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:45:57 -0800, Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >I suspect this may almost be generational. The folks who tend to use
> > >Outhouse Express as a news reader probably got used to the default
> > >follow up location, whereas those who got used to the older pure
> > >character mode readers and stuff like Forte' Agent got used to that.
> > >
> > >As for where "new" information belongs, I personally prefer in context
> > >where a comment about a particular paragraph is put right after that
> > >paragraph.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> What bothers me is when people don't quote back any part of the
> message,
> > >> With my deteriorating mental abilities if is sometimes difficult to
> remember
> > >> previous posts.
> >
> > Well, I know bottom posting helps in the case(which happens all too
> > often, still)where I see replies to a post before I actually see the
> > original post. Keeps everybody's thoughts in order so to speak.
> >
> > If you've got OE set to text only instead of HTML, it's not that big a
> > thing to bottom post there, too. Forte' Agent(or Free Agent in my
> > case)does it automatically.
> > --
> > Old Crow
> > '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl"
> > '74 XLH chopper(somebody else's baby now)
> > BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM, DOF#51, DH#2
> > "There's only 1 RE"
>
>

Tomes

I don't think that there is anything quirky about top posting. It is how
the program works, it presents the relevant information up top where one
looks when the message is opened so one does not need to scroll through all
the stuff that one has already read in the previous posts, and it is how
anyone in the corporate world is used to handling it. In corporate America
(the huge chemical company I worked for for 25 years) at least, _no one_
bottom posts. No one at all.
Tomes

"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:43c104ee$0$10330$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
> I vote for top posting. After spending a semester in Spain, and seeing
> posters and graffiti complaining about "capitalismo", a Ronald McDonald
who
> looks a bit like Satan, Microsoft, and all the horrible things that have
> been done to the beautiful and pure Spanish culture by avaricious
> estadounidenses, canadienses, and alamenes, I think that we need all the
> support we can get. If this means going along with Outlook Express'
> sometimes quirky ideas of posting format, so be it. This reasoning is as
> logical as anything that I have seen in this thread.
>
> Earle
>
> "Old Crow" <walliscrow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:agv1s1duv859v35l82h9h6if25737tkjkk@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:45:57 -0800, Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >I suspect this may almost be generational. The folks who tend to use
> > >Outhouse Express as a news reader probably got used to the default
> > >follow up location, whereas those who got used to the older pure
> > >character mode readers and stuff like Forte' Agent got used to that.
> > >
> > >As for where "new" information belongs, I personally prefer in context
> > >where a comment about a particular paragraph is put right after that
> > >paragraph.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> What bothers me is when people don't quote back any part of the
> message,
> > >> With my deteriorating mental abilities if is sometimes difficult to
> remember
> > >> previous posts.
> >
> > Well, I know bottom posting helps in the case(which happens all too
> > often, still)where I see replies to a post before I actually see the
> > original post. Keeps everybody's thoughts in order so to speak.
> >
> > If you've got OE set to text only instead of HTML, it's not that big a
> > thing to bottom post there, too. Forte' Agent(or Free Agent in my
> > case)does it automatically.
> > --
> > Old Crow
> > '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl"
> > '74 XLH chopper(somebody else's baby now)
> > BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM, DOF#51, DH#2
> > "There's only 1 RE"
>
>

Tomes

I don't think that there is anything quirky about top posting. It is how
the program works, it presents the relevant information up top where one
looks when the message is opened so one does not need to scroll through all
the stuff that one has already read in the previous posts, and it is how
anyone in the corporate world is used to handling it. In corporate America
(the huge chemical company I worked for for 25 years) at least, _no one_
bottom posts. No one at all.
Tomes

"Earle Horton" <NurseBustersNoSpam@msn.com> wrote in message
news:43c104ee$0$10330$a82e2bb9@reader.athenanews.c om...
> I vote for top posting. After spending a semester in Spain, and seeing
> posters and graffiti complaining about "capitalismo", a Ronald McDonald
who
> looks a bit like Satan, Microsoft, and all the horrible things that have
> been done to the beautiful and pure Spanish culture by avaricious
> estadounidenses, canadienses, and alamenes, I think that we need all the
> support we can get. If this means going along with Outlook Express'
> sometimes quirky ideas of posting format, so be it. This reasoning is as
> logical as anything that I have seen in this thread.
>
> Earle
>
> "Old Crow" <walliscrow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:agv1s1duv859v35l82h9h6if25737tkjkk@4ax.com...
> > On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 19:45:57 -0800, Lon <lon.stowell@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > >I suspect this may almost be generational. The folks who tend to use
> > >Outhouse Express as a news reader probably got used to the default
> > >follow up location, whereas those who got used to the older pure
> > >character mode readers and stuff like Forte' Agent got used to that.
> > >
> > >As for where "new" information belongs, I personally prefer in context
> > >where a comment about a particular paragraph is put right after that
> > >paragraph.
> > >
> > >>
> > >> What bothers me is when people don't quote back any part of the
> message,
> > >> With my deteriorating mental abilities if is sometimes difficult to
> remember
> > >> previous posts.
> >
> > Well, I know bottom posting helps in the case(which happens all too
> > often, still)where I see replies to a post before I actually see the
> > original post. Keeps everybody's thoughts in order so to speak.
> >
> > If you've got OE set to text only instead of HTML, it's not that big a
> > thing to bottom post there, too. Forte' Agent(or Free Agent in my
> > case)does it automatically.
> > --
> > Old Crow
> > '82 FLTC-P "Miss Pearl"
> > '74 XLH chopper(somebody else's baby now)
> > BS#133, SENS, TOMKAT, MAMBM, DOF#51, DH#2
> > "There's only 1 RE"
>
>