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Ah the old top poster vs bottom poster argument!!!!!!!!!!

In the olden days (pre Microsoft rules everything) you used to go to the bottom of the message and answer - sometimes interspercing your answer and snipping where appropriate - that way you didnt repeat useless info like I just have.

However we are now in the days of post Microsoft rules everything and OE is set up to encourage you to top post. (send more data, use more bandwidth, pay more usage fees. Imagine 1,000,000 people sending 5k of useless data per minute - think of the income to ISP's in particular - use more pay more)

I am a top poster as I hate having to scroll down to see what the person is saying because I use a newsgroup and know what the conversation is about because the conversation thread is maintained. If a bottom poster adds to the conversation I only scroll down if I know the person is likely to say something intelligent and useful. More often it is one of the 10 very nice people who has done a lookup of what the person asked and it wont concern me anyway.

However bottom posters probably go the other way - they dont see the conversation thread and have to rely on reading the previous post to know what the conversation was about because each snatch of the conversation comes in a separate email with no relationship to the original.

that's my 10c worth Helen Castle