In , "bewtifulfreak"
wrote:
| "Arjun Ray" wrote in message
|

| If you're talking about Barbara Peale, Google is your friend:
|
| I wasn't, actually.

Sorry, I assumed you were. I suppose I should add, then, that animal
abusers aren't the only ones who don't get courtesy from me.

| What you still haven't provided a coherent argument for is what some
| people call "jeopardy style" (where the answer precedes the question).
|
| I did explain my reasoning, but you obviously disagree with it. Fair
| enough.

Have you read all the links at the allmyfaqs.com wiki?

http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?How_to_post

It's telling that no one has added to the wiki anything in favor of TOFU
(a term coined in the de.* hierarchy: "Text Oben, FullQuote Unten")

|| I use what comes with my browser.
|
| Usenet is not an adjunct of the WWW.
|
| No, but I prefer to get my newsgroups along with my mail.

Mail isn't an adjunct of the WWW either, so I still don't see what a
browser has to do with it. ;-)

| I will explore the other options you've linked to, but most of the
| stand-alone newsreaders I've tried seemed far more complex than I
| wanted to bother with.

I think you should have said "less familiar". OE's inteface is far from
"simple"; in fact, it can be stupefyingly misleading (due, of course, to
the fact that the designers and programmers hadn't the first clue about
usenet). Defective software may explain, but does not excuse - much
less justify - poor posting practices. And, unfortunately, most people
make heavy weather of admitting gaffes (such, as in this context, having
been led up the garden path by OE's posting interface.)