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Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? [message #411329 is a reply to message #411308]

Tue, 28 September 2021 02:18

Charles Richmond
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Registered: December 2011

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> On 26/09/2021 21:44, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Sep 2021 20:51:37 +0100
>> gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In groups.io, a similar facility to usenet, top posting predominates.
>>
>> It is common politeness, when joining a group, to adopt the
>> conventions of that group, it is a joy when those conventions are also
>> sensible and a minor burden when they are not.
>>
>
> But are conventions determined by historical
> personages some of whom are long dead, or do
> the later contributors also have a say in what is a convention?
>
Historically (and probably now), the members of a group decide who
should be allowed to post. Each person's newsreader software allowed a
list of addresses to be maintained... and would automatically discard
messages from that address. If the majority of members of a group had
your address on their "discard" list, effectively you were kept out.

(There is a name for that "discard" list... but I can not remember it
now...)

Some "official" groups (not "alt.*" groups) are moderated by an "admin",
and you have to be officially admitted to the group by that admin.

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		Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Sun, 26 September 2021 15:51
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Sun, 26 September 2021 16:20
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Mon, 27 September 2021 04:58
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: D.J. on Mon, 27 September 2021 11:03
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: John Levine on Mon, 27 September 2021 15:57
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: usenet on Tue, 28 September 2021 09:09
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Charles Richmond on Wed, 29 September 2021 12:54
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Wed, 29 September 2021 15:42
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Charlie Gibbs on Wed, 29 September 2021 16:20
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 28 September 2021 21:13
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Joy Beeson on Wed, 29 September 2021 22:25
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Sun, 26 September 2021 16:44
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Mike Spencer on Mon, 27 September 2021 00:41
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Mon, 27 September 2021 01:54
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Quadibloc on Mon, 27 September 2021 03:01
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Mike Spencer on Mon, 27 September 2021 19:25
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 28 September 2021 02:03
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Charles Richmond on Tue, 28 September 2021 02:04
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Arne Luft on Mon, 27 September 2021 13:45
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Mon, 27 September 2021 05:00
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Mon, 27 September 2021 06:03
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Mike Spencer on Mon, 27 September 2021 20:10
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Charles Richmond on Tue, 28 September 2021 02:18
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 28 September 2021 21:20
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Mon, 27 September 2021 16:34
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: D.J. on Mon, 27 September 2021 19:24
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Mon, 27 September 2021 21:45
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: usenet on Tue, 28 September 2021 09:12
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Tue, 28 September 2021 13:33
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		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Charles Richmond on Wed, 29 September 2021 13:03
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		Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? By: Andreas Kohlbach on Thu, 07 October 2021 20:12
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		Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? By: usenet on Sat, 09 October 2021 01:48
		Re: Sub or dom ; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 12 October 2021 11:26
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Charlie Gibbs on Tue, 28 September 2021 15:03
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: D.J. on Tue, 28 September 2021 17:45
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: D.J. on Tue, 28 September 2021 17:41
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Quadibloc on Tue, 28 September 2021 19:55
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 28 September 2021 20:53
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Peter Flass on Tue, 28 September 2021 12:36
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: D.J. on Tue, 28 September 2021 17:46
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 28 September 2021 21:18
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Tue, 28 September 2021 21:17
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Anonymous on Thu, 30 September 2021 04:41
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Ahem A Rivet's Shot on Thu, 30 September 2021 05:22
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: Harry Vaderchi on Thu, 30 September 2021 05:42
		Re: Top or bottom posting; does it really matter? By: scott on Thu, 30 September 2021 10:31
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