Re: Top posting

From: Hubert Chan (hubert_at_uhoreg.ca)
Date: 06/09/05

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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:35:50 -0400

    On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 14:34:53 -0400, Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com> said:

    > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote:
    >> be getting out of hand :)
    >> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to
    >> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give

    [...]

    > With that being said, and realizing that with a .de domain, you are
    > probably using English as a second language, one could ask that you
    > make an effort to use proper style, such as writing in complete
    > sentences, capitalizing the beginning of your sentences, and
    > completing your sentences.

    OK, for the sake of those who missed the point of David Jardine's
    message, you read line 3 first, then line 2, then line 1. It's supposed
    to emulate the nonsense of top-posting. It isn't broken English.

    Here it is in proper order:

    > On Thursday 09 June 2005 12:55 pm, David Jardine wrote:
    >> Isn't some authoritative voice on the list going to give
    >> us a lecture on top posting sometime soon? It seems to
    >> be getting out of hand :)

    (David, I think you're to subtle for the majority of the people on this
    list. ;-) ) 

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