Re: Top posting

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From: Frank Matthews
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 03:17

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No I simply find top posting convenient when others do it and I hate to 
waste time scrolling through a bunch of information to get to the tidbit 
of new stuff.

I also don't like nannies and respond poorly to being told what to do.

Frank Matthews

The Wizard of Oz wrote:
> Frank Matthews wrote:
> 
>>The following is a perfect argument in favor of top posting.
>>
>>Frank Matthews
> 
> 
> 	Nope, it's a perfect example of what happens when folks don't trim the
> quoted material down to only what they are referencing, and then some
> other person with incorrect ideas tries to prove that two wrongs make a
> right.
> 
> 	Always trim un-necessary quoted material, never top post.
> 
> 	Fairly basic Netiquette, really. Or are you just now joining Usenet?

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