Re: [SLE] SORRY GUYS

On Saturday 07 January 2006 13:56, Greg Wallace wrote:
> On Friday, January 06, 2006 @ 5:05 PM, John Boyle wrote:
> >To Michael, et al: And Yet I have someone else getting angry IF you do
> >NOT TOP post, So What gives??? IF you do not top post and it is to
> >someone you need to communicate with, you are wrong and if you do others
> >get huffy because you do!!! I refuse to go nuts, and WILL top post my
> >emails, with my newsgroups bottom posted!..... :-)
>
> Top posting is like having a book with no table of contents and chapters in
> reverse order. You finish chapter 5 and then say "ok, now I need to go
> back through 1 page at a time and try to find chapter 4.
>
> Greg Wallace

Well said!

It really comes into its own when you are searching an email list for an
answer and trying to decipher what people were saying. Try it someday and you
will find out why top posting is really really stupid as you have no way of
working out what was said when.

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Regards,

Graham Smith

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