"sf" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:34:35 -0800, "Sam D."
> > wrote:
>
>> until it was explained WHY doing so makes it
>> unreasonably awkward and more difficult for others to follow the
>> discussion, especially if there are one or more other posters that
>> successively respond to your comment and to those that follow.
>
> This is Usenet, not a list serve. We don't need or want
> everybody's contribution in a single post.
>
>> This is
>> just a matter of etiquette and consideration for everyone else.
>
> It's a matter of laziness! Bottom posting complainers are
> too lazy or too egotistical to snip judiciously.
>
>> And
>> maybe I missed something but I have no idea what you mean by
>> "downloading anything to move the cursor."
>
> According to some bottom posting whiners - way back in the
> dark ages of Usenet, the cursor defaulted to the bottom.
> The way to do it these days is via a software program.
>
>
> sf
sf.. I'm still cracking up over this, and the humorless folks who took
offense. It was a joke.. I haven't top posted more than one line or so, and
several others here do...so now I think they're embarrassed They'll
either get over it or under it.. as grandma used to say.
lucy