AVR-Chat

On Mar 23, 2008, at 1:27 AM, dlc wrote:

>   Don't worry about it.  To live on the 'net you need to grown thicker
> skin.  There is _always_ someone who wants to instruct us all not to
> top-post.  Like the teachers who taught us english speakers that we  
> must
> NEVER split an infinitive (which we can very easily do [and I just
> did]), they are simply attached to a habit that does not always make
> sense.  Top post all you want - I myself get tired of wading through
> increasingly difficult to deal with >>> to get to the answer somewhere
> near the bottom of a 20 page thread...  This isn't USENET me' lads.


Don't forget that when asking questions one is asking for the favor of  
a reply. If you can't speak the language, ask intelligent questions,  
and obey the forms, then don't expect a reply.

Top posting is bad. Failure to trim is equally bad. There is no excuse  
for 20 pages of quoted crap. In general top-posters are responsible  
for most cases of 20 pages of quoted crap.

Fun thing to do to yank top-poster's chains: reply in top-post format  
but change the contents of the quoted section. Then cite that quoted  
sections a couple of generations later. Top-posters who fail to trim  
never read the entire message they send.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.