Built like a Mercedes (?)

You shouldn't have to scroll to see what the person emailing you wrote.
There have been arguments about top or bottom posting on just about
every newsgroup. Everyone has their own opinion and reasons why.

I have no problem scrolling to the bottom and moving up if I want to
read through all the messages leading up the newest. Thing is, with top
posting I have that choice. With bottom posting the reader is forced to
scroll through everything. Reverse order makes more sense to me, most
current message on top. Why people get confused is beyond reason. In
the end it really doesn't matter but some people really get bent out of
shape about it.

 

Pooh Bear wrote:

Proper trimming makes the reasons for bottom posting weak as well. It
all comes down to personal preference. Why get bothered by something so
simple either way?

 

Most in the UK or much of Europe do not have personal needs for hauling
heavy loads as is common in the USA. 10,000 lb+ RV's are very common in
the USA. They tow them for recreational purposes. They don't want a
commercial grade truck to do so. They want something that is
comfortable for a family. In the UK recreational trailers are typically
much smaller and lighter and thus little need for a high towing capacity
family vehicle.

 

Well Miles, please allow me try to answer you. When you have nothing else to
do and you become a anal twit, bitching about where people respond to a
friggin' mindless thread may soon be the high point of your life. Rest
assured Miles if I had more time to devote I could probably come up with
more bullshit just like these idiots.
Please play nice with them.

Roy


Trim this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

If you have been here in Summer or in rural areas any time you will know
that there are a far higher proportion of vehicles towing over here than in
the USA. Yes both vehicle and load are lighter but the towed load is
proportionate. The loads are heavy for the towing vehicle type and that is
the cruicial comparison. Pickups of the hilux type commonly tow 6600kgs
legally and a bit more on the sly. Cars of the Ford Modeo class tow caravans
up to a ton and slightly more on dropside compact trailers.
I regularly tow 4 tons behind my Land Cruiser and old Land Rover, sometimes
over long distances and this is *very* common. There are rather stringent
rules for towing that kind of weight though and apart from certain excempt
occupations it needs the fitting and use of a tachograph and all that goes
with it.

Huw

Huw

 

nice.

 

lol Roy! Usenet is full of people that will argue anything.

 

I have been over there. I also personally know several that live in the
UK. I do not believe there is anywheres near the proportion of
recreational towing that there is in the USA. When traveling in the
rural country of England I saw a few RV's here and there but they were
very few. Everywhere I drive here, day, night, winter, summer there are
numerous RV's on the highways. Sometimes bumper to bumper. Try driving
from Palm Springs, California to Los Angeles on I-10 on the last day of
a holiday weekend. It's bumper to bumper for over 50 mile stretch of
RV's. Pretty much the same all over the USA. Until shown otherwise I'll
stand by my statement that there are FAR more RV's being towed in the
USA than in the UK.

 

A variation of a joke told in the U.S. about a Texas rancher.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

They are different contexts. When you reply to a business e-mail you
are generally carrying on a conversation with another person or small
group, one that is fairly well-remembered by all the parties involved.
The reader doesn't need the quote except for reference. When you reply to
Usenet you are involved in a discussion with a large group of people,
many of whom are involved in several other discussion threads also.
The reader needs the quote just to establish which particular
discussion the message refers to.

 

The quote is needed in both cases. The issue is where that quote gets
placed.

 

Is NOT!

 

You may want to suggest that she delete text that she's not directly
responding to. That will shorten the length of the post (sometimes
considerably). This will lessen, or even eliminate, the need to scroll
down. Note that I deleted the first 13 lines of the post I responded
to. Had I not, you most likely would have had to scroll down to read my
reply.

 

My experience with Netscape 4.x was that it would stop working after a
few minutes. I ended up using OE until Netscape 6 came out. After I
found that Mozilla releases updates more often than Netscape, I switched
to that.

 

I used Netscape 4.x for quite a long time without problems. I now use
Thunderbird. Works great.

 

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It doesn't change the fact that it makes it more difficult to establish
context. When I correspond by email, I do it the same way I post to
usenet (trim irrelavent text and type right below what I'm responding
to). Sometimes I go as far as reformatting an email to look more like a
usenet post (using an external editor like gvim makes it really easy).

 

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In the UK, recreational trailers ( other than the dreaded 'caravans' ) are all but unknown.

Graham