Newbie here...question re treble and bass control for speakers

[Frogleg]

Why is top posting so unpopular? I think that especially in long threads
with dozens of posts, that it is a pain in the ass to have to scroll through
the same initial post and all previous responses
for each message in the thread. Or am I missing something?

A: Because top posting doesn't make sense.
Q: Why bottom post?

(Stolen from someone else)

 

[Frogleg]

Answer: Because its not the natural way most people read.
Question: Why is top posting bad?

Having to scroll through a lot of quoted text is a pain. In this case,
trim the quoted text to the bare minimum necessary to maintain
continuity. Or, you can split the post and respond to individual items
in-line.
summarize the points to which you are responding in your
own post.

Perzactly. It doesn't take long to at least trim the fat, and still
include the sense of the thread. Will all those who post a "I agree"
with *no* quoted material please drink poison and die? Similiarly,
those who quote a 200-line thread and add "Right on!" I see lots of
posts with which I agree (or not), but don't see much point in
mentioning it unless I can, IMHO, add something to the discussion.

 

[Dbowey]

BFD. Sometimes it makes lot's of sense, but why should anyone have tight
pucker strings over it?

Fried ones posted:

 

[JM]

quoting:

Why is top posting so unpopular? I think that especially in long threads
with dozens of posts, that it is a pain in the ass to have to scroll through
the same initial post and all previous responses
for each message in the thread. Or am I missing something?

Flame away!

Why the f*** is this x posted here??? Please take this to alt.flame .

 

[JeffM]

It this is too complicated for you, refer to

IMHO rude and uncalled for
Bob Stephens

or just a gentle jibe without a smiley?

IIRC I saw this book on Captain Kangaroo as a youngster.

Don't squeeze the cat.

This happen
This is would happen
This is what would happen if everybody did.
This is what would happen
This is would happen
This happen

 

[Baphomet]

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Rude and uncalled for on usenet......shocking

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[William H. Hathaway]

On 07 Nov 2003, Bob Stephens wrote

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Agreed -- I'd extend that curiousity to the amazing degree to which so
many people seem to view *everything* in violent extremes: top/bottom
posting, Linux/MS, XNews/OE and the rest of it.

Some posters seem to get stroke-inducingly partisan about these issues:
it's as if one's whole moral character is supposed to be wrapped up in
the choice of some negligible piece of software (or a nice-but-not-
earth-shatteringly-critical bit of netiquette).

This top vs. bottom thing reminds me of the over/under war
on the proper way to hang the toilet paper (bathroom tissue)
roll. There can be practical reasons for either, butt in the
end, it all gets flushed.

There are definitely some clinically weird folks out there.....

From which I draw much comfort. Who wants to be the only data
point six sigma from the peak of the curve? Often it's the
weird folk who gave us the modern world of electricity, computers,
technology, etc. The "Norms" are boring and usually a waste
of resources. Wild rules while mild snores.