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Re: [OT] top posting



Alex Samad(alex@samad.com.au) is reported to have said:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote:
> > IMHO, trying to argue this point based on "rational" or objective
> > reasoning, that one way is truly, obviously, and naturally "better"
> > than another, is fraught with hazard, since someone *will* argue with
> > equal validity (to them at least) that their way is better.
> > 
> > In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of etiquette.  The practice
> > varies, and some lists work the other way, but on this and many lists
> > the convention is to top post, trim heartily, try to get the attributions
> It the convention is to top post then we don't seem to be following the 

> convention. ( I thought it was to not top post ?)

Alex, are you trolling?  If not, you sure are making a 'name' for
yourself.  No only are you not trimming the text we all have in the
thread, you don't even trim the end of the posts.  

Keep it up, my whitelist is full but my blacklist has a lot of space
left.

Wt

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"As part of the conversion, computer specialists rewrote 1,500
programs; a process that traditionally requires some debugging.
-- USA Today, referring to the IRS switchover to a new computer system.  
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