[38552] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HTML-format postings
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonas Luster)
Thu Jun 7 02:00:48 2001
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:00:02 -0700
From: Jonas Luster <jluster@d-fensive.com>
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* Todd Suiter sez:
: People who top post actually bother you? Is the other way around for me, =
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It's not so much the people but the traffic. Top-Posting usually means =
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Fullquote. Almost no top-poste I know bothers to shorten the content =
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below his own $0.01. That said, let's just assume 10 top-posters with =
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reasonably long texts in a row and you've got from 10 to 100 times more =
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traffic than botton-postings. Multiply this by 1000 mailing list =
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subscribers or some 10.000 Newsservers and you add quite some traffic to =
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the 'net. =
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Now let's just think for less than 3 seconds about the guys who make =
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Mailing Lists happen. These guys and gals do it - in most cases - out of =
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enthusiasm, paying bandwidth and server resources so _you_ can read and =
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post. Adding extra traffix to their tab does not strike me as social =
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behavior at all. =
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I always saw Top/Bottom as some kind of age- (netwise) and =
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clue-indicator, the former being a sure sign of less than 3 years of =
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netizenship. That might just be me and should not influence your =
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preferences, tho. Neither should the fact that in most European and =
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American cultures text is read from top to bottom, assuming timelines =
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and question/response pairs associated with the flow of information we =
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receive and process. Unless you're an avvid Jeopardy fan, you might see =
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my point here, I guess. =
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So, that makes three reasons not to Top-Post, one of which I consider =
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important. Just think about it, and then let's see how you like your new =
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life as a bottom-poster.
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