[HPFGU-Feedback] top-posting & tennis

[Tammy Rizzo]

On 9 Feb 2005 at 14:53, cubfanbudwoman wrote:

> 
> 
> Tammy Rizzo:
> > One question, though, if that's all right?  What is 'top-posting'?  
> > I can't seem to find that term defined anywhere.  Maybe I'm not 
> > looking in the right places, but I can't find it.  Thanks!
> 
> 
> SSS:
> Top-posting is when someone sends a response and puts his/her own 
> comments *above* the post to which he/she is responding.  Whereas the 
> expectation is that the responder will snip the relevant portion of 
> the original post, then put his/her own comments BELOW.

Tammy Rizzo:
Thank you for that definition.  I *do* find that rather annoying, and it's one reason I stopped 
using Outlook for my email, since I couldn't set it NOT to start messages at the top.  Argh.  I 
hate doing things by hand if there's a way to automate it.  ;-)

> More on tennis debates or tennis exchanges.  
<snip> 
> "Yes, it IS abuse."  
> "No, it's NOT abuse."  
> "Well, as I've said 300 times before, it's abuse because ...."
> "Well, as I'VE said 400 times before, it's not abuse because...."
> "Well, you're just WRONG."
> 
> This is the kind of thing I'm talking about.  
<snip>

That's pretty much what I thought was meant by 'tennis exchanges'.  Pointless back and 
forth, back and forth.  I know some people like tennis, I mean real tennis, but I've never 
seen the point in the endless "are not, are too" type of exchanges.  They're quite distracting 
and boring and really don't belong.  Anywhere.  Well, at least, not on an active board with 
plenty of topics to discuss.

Although I do remember a rather amusing series of such back-and-forth exchanges on one 
of the Babylon 5 lists waaay back in the middle of '97 or so, when it was re-run season, and 
everyone was bored, and there hadn't been any new analysis in weeks, and some brilliant 
wit started a Drazi War ("Green!"  "No, Purple!"  "GREEN!"  "PURPLE!"  "orange?"  
"PLAID!")  However, that did at least have some creativity and purpose, and was therefore 
FUN, as opposed to simple bickering.

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Tammy Rizzo
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