[T3] Intermittent hesitation/stall.?

[Jim Adney]

On 7 Feb 2012 at 11:17, Gary Forsmo wrote:

> Does this post follow the CORRECT Type 3 "protocol" for responding to
> a question? 

I hesitate to designate one particular format the correct one, simply 
because we'll never all manage to agree. But I found your system 
readable and it worked. It avoided excess quoted material, and it got 
the answer (or comment) to follow the question (or statement.) There 
ought to be a way to do this without copying and pasting. In general, 
I think all you have to do is learn how to highlight and use the 
carriage return and delete keys, and how to put your cursor where YOU 
want to start your message.

The best illustration for this problem that I've ever seen was in 
someone's sig on one of the Bicycle newsgroups. It went something 
like this:


Answer: 
Because it reverses the normal order between question and answer.

Question:
Why is top posting bad?

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Jim Adney, jadney at vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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