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In general I find that those that tirade against top posters can't 
spell and smell of elderberry wine.

DLC

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