PL Trek Enterprise wrap-up

Must have been the Spaulding "Doomsday" model... Heh.

P.S. Just what *is* the etiquette >After the long, arduous odyssey to put together two of these kits for my

Basketball is a peaceful planet! We have no weapons!

oops. Wrong parody.

Answers:

1. FAQ states using a bottom reply, as do about 99% of Usenet groups do.
2. It shouldn't start a war, but it will because someone will erroneously defend the top-posting habit. GOOD newsreaders, e.g. Netscape Messenger and FreeAgent, let people determine where in a reply their content goes. Since Microsoft Outlook Express is irritatingly becoming the ubiquitous NG reader, it only adds to the top-posting irritation because it DEFAULTs to the top of the message. And of course, since Microsoft more about what's good for you than you do, there aren't any options (that i know of) to modify this behavior. Knowing them, if it can be modified, it's buried in no fewer than five or six menu levels; not very intuitive for such a simple, commonly used feature. Since people are way too busy to take 10 seconds to move down to the bottom (just ask them), they lazily send replies up top.

And before any top-posting fans post a word about it, yes top-posting is irritating, annoying, idiotic, and only insults the audience you're trying to reach. Makes it more difficult to follow the continuity of a given message thread. SO DON'T DO IT.

You tell'em brother!

WmB

To reply, get the HECK out of there snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net

Yes, failure to snip is just as annoying as top-posting. But it's interesting that you didn't see fit to trim Steve's 16-line sig.

I agree (sorry just my sense of humour)

Spence

Yep. Too much verbiage.

WmB

To reply, get the HECK out of there snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net

Guilty as charged at times, re: the lack of snippage. I get wrapped around the axle on a message thread and forget to snip out the stuff I'm not talking about.

Maybe I should hire a newsgroup Mohel?????

..because then everyone misses out on my witty banter...

LOL!

Hey Hub, congrats on getting that detail set for Galactica!

Just went to the hobby store today for some paints and had to physically restrain myself from picking up a Fine Molds Jedi Starfighter. It looked way cool, but at $40.00, it was a little rich for my blood.

Mike (ODO)

Thank you so much for the info! I ask mainly because I haven't yet seen the rec.models.scale FAQ, although I have seen links to the model ships FAQ.

Would there be an HTTP link I could look up?

Thanks, Casey

P.S. I use Agent (registered). Can anyone tell me where I can set the default to bottom reply? I haven't found it yet.