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dlc wrote:
>    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:
>>
>>     
>>>   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.
>>
>> --
>> David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
>> ========================================================================
>> Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
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