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Subj : Newsgroups?
To   : FOXY FERGUSON
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Jul 26 2001 06:09 am

ML>> this top/bottom posting issue is one of the person's
ML>> newsreader... many newsreaders simply quote the message and
ML>> dump you in the top or the bottom to start writting... those
ML>> of us who have been sysops for any real length of time
ML>> should remember 'assisting' and 'training' bbs users on how
ML>> to write and respond to messages on the bbs... this is the
ML>> same thing only on a global scale...

 FF> Yes, but there aren't many who have even bothered to try and
 FF> assist in educating the vast multitudes of click 'n' point
 FF> Internet users as to why it is/was considered rude and
 FF> uncouth to fail to prune the msg to which one is responding.

true... myself, i find, repeating things over and over and over... after 25+ 
years of repeating myself all day, every day, i'm too fed up and crotchety mean 
to even think about being nice... i'm sure that many others are, too...

sadly, i think that's also a major part of what's happened to our/this hobby 
;-(

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