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Old June 14th 09, 03:18 PM posted to rec.photo.darkroom
Frank Pittel
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David Nebenzahl wrote:
: On 6/9/2009 10:16 AM Frank Pittel spake thus:

: john joseph wrote:
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: : I'm rather surprised to read Frank's comment. He's an old-timer and
: : admin expert.
:
: It makes sense when you think about it. I set tin to thread on
: subject. This means when I see a thread I'm interested in with say 10
: posts. I select that thread and I get the first post in the thread
: then I get the second and so on. By the time I get to the second post
: I've already read the posts that preceeded it and I'm only interested
: in the new content. When the new posts are top posted the new content
: is at the top and is easy to find and read. When the new post is
: bottom posted I have to go look for it.

: Well, actually, it *doesn't* make sense when you really think about it.

Actually when you think about it, it makes more sense to top post then to
bottom post.

: Your statement above assumes that a thread takes a linear path and
: sticks strictly to its subject. As we all know, this is often not the
: case here. Sometimes someone will take a particular aspect of the
: question and discuss it, or even introduce an entirely new part of the
: topic, or a new topic altogether. Going by your method, all this would
: be lost without quoting and attribution, which is why it makes sense to
: do it.

It's still a single thread to at least my newsreader. If I need to reread
what the poster was responding to I have a number of choices. The quickest
and most obvious is to simply continue reading. Since what the poster is
responding to is on top it's easy to find. The next choice is to simply read
the post the responder was replying to. There's always the option to have
my newsreader show a graphical tree of the thread with all the subthreads.

: As a rule I don't read the old content every time I read a message.

: That may explain why you're often confused about things.

As always you're right and everyone else in the world is wrong. Over a
billion people in the world and you're the only one that's always right.

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