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Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 13:27:03 -0400
From: "Elaine C. Sharpe" <elaine@southernstarsolutions.com>
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In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote:
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> On 28 March 2011 10:11, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 28 March 2011 09:43:47 JM wrote:
>> > to-posting?
>>
>> Neil meant to say "top-posting":
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>>
>> (there are many links if you google about netiquette and usenet etiquette).
>>
>> BTW, some typos like Neil's are allowed to keep the rest of us on our toes.
>> ;-)
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Mick
>>
>
> lol - I'll ask google to alter gmail for me :)
>

It hardly matters I'm sure, since those of us who read this list on 
usenet with slrn can easily see the incompetent mess kmail makes of mail. 
Yet it's what most here seem to prefer for some weird reason. 

But yes, top posting does suck -- almost as badly as all the 
"==20" crap polluting all the kmail users' messages. Almost.

:)

-- 
...she kept arranging and rearranging the rabbit and kind of waving to it. I decided, "this is the person I want to sit next to".