Sun Tzu wrote:

> "Dan P" <dan### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
> news:407f2150$1@news.povray.org...

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>>A quick note on etiquette: usually we post after a paragraph to match
>>the natural order of reading (posting above is called "top posting". I
>>took this particular post and reformatted; note that Rafal's response is
>>first, then your response, and finally mine at the bottom. That way, the
>>reader doesn't have to "scan up" the page. I also snipped out anything
>>that wasn't relevant to the replies by using some sort of "snip"

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> I much prefer top posts actually.  (I'm just bottom posting now as a
> courtesy to you because I now know you prefer it, hehe)  I find it very
> frustrating when I've been keeping up with a thread to scroll all the way
> down to the new stuff at the bottom every time.  I like to see the newest,
> currently relevant text first, and if I'm not up to date with the thread I
> can scroll down and read the history if I want to.  That is the way I've
> always seen email done as well.  The current comments at the top and the
> thread history below.

You make a valid argument! I can totally see the sense in that. I've 
just been whipped into shape by the newsgroup nazis and don't want to 
irk them again :-)

> Of course if there is actually a consensus here regarding the 'correct' way
> to do this I will conform.  :-)

Uh oh -- now you did it. Everybody is going to have an opinion now. 
Brace yourself! :-)

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Dan P
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