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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:07:08 -0600
Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:

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> On 01/14/08 18:58, Alex Samad wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:25:14PM -0800, Raquel wrote:
> >> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:52:04 +1100
> >> Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au> wrote:
> >>
> >>> my mail reader sort my mail in date order and links together all
> >>> the threaded emails.  I read them in date/time  order, if I follow
> >>> a thread from begging to end, then all i should have to do is read
> >>> the top posts, but if they bottom posted, then as the thread grows
> >>> I find I have to scroll further down, re reading the same
> >>> information I have read in the previous email.
> >> Then the people posting are not trimming their posts as they should.
> > or taken to the extreme, why not remove all the original post!
> 
> Extremism is the hallmark of the non-thinker.

"Extremes are alone logical, but they are always absurd." -- Samuel
Butler in Erewhon.  One of the greatest aphorisms I know.

www.theabsolute.net/minefield/butler.html

> Ron Johnson, Jr.
> Jefferson LA  USA

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