Dan... if people were smart enough to begin reading at the BEGINNING of the
thread, there would be no doubt regarding the topic and content of the
thread. If we jump into the middle of of it, we will be subject to whatever
editting, chopping and tinkering that any number of previous posters may
have inflicted on previous messages... making whatever you have decided to
read dubious as for value, intent, context and content.

In an ideal world (one where people read the whole sentence and actually
followed the conversation) there would be no need for quoting any previous
messages. Logical flow? I see little logic displayed by most UseNet posters
to begin with... especially those that come up with lame excuses for top
posting destroying "logical flow" . If you started reading the thread from
the beginning, you would have a good undertsanding what the thread was
about, you would be aware of any statements, misunderstandings or other
conditions that generated any particular reply...

But you young'uns can be particularly lazy and prefer to have things handed
to you so that you can react in wierd and wonderful ways.

Look at it this way.... I think you are a wiener.....

But who the f.ck am I?

Should it really matter to YOU that I think you are a wiener?

To you, I am nobody... you don't know me and I don't know you (somehow, I
find that comforting).... Deal with it, Princess.... nobody promised that
you would be wise.

Now.... you are going to have to decide if THIS is top posted or not....

Correct answer is yes, it was top posted before I deleted the rest of the
crap you should have already read.....

Explain that to me.... wiener....

how does it make it difficult to keep up with a conversation??

i have already read what was posted. i know what you said, and am responding
to it. i don't need to read it again, and again, and again.

also, why does everyone have to copy everything said before they reply??
i already read that stuff 3 + times

Bottom posting is fine when people delete the 3 pages of crap above
their 'I agree'

b

It amuses me when someone goes off on some rant about top-posting. The
ONLY place that top-posting is loathed (or anyone actually gives a rat's
a.s) seems to be newsgroups. In business E-mail communication, the
equivalent of top "posting" (ie writing your response to an e-mail chain
above the quoted text) is BY FAR the most common method because a) it
still preserves the whole thread of communication for reference, and b)
the immediately relevant portion is the first thing you see without
having to scroll through 6 weeks of prior discussion.

Note that I'm NOT top-posting here, because the quoted text has been
appropriately trimmed rather than preserving the whole string (which
would include Nomen Numbnuts original post, and that's something I
refuse to do at any cost).

And by the way- since when is the Chevrolet Impala still any kind of
real player in the police cruiser market? Since it went front-drive its
been used for nothing more than public school campus police and city
parking enforcement around here. The Charger 3.5L v6 HO is also faster
than the Ford Interceptor v8, and the 5.7L Hemi v8 is finally back to
the kind of performance you could expect from copcars in the big-block
days, or the early 90s with the LT-1 powered  Caprice.

What the "Dodge line" rates is immaterial. The LX cars are relatively
problem free and the 8cyl versions are "recommended" vehicles by CR. And
  while Toyota etc, may "win" the durabilty award, there ain't much of
a difference in the domestic police choices.