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Old 13-02-2007, 09:28 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible,alt.religion.kibology
Kevin S. Wilson Kevin S. Wilson is offline
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On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 02:55:22 GMT, Salmon Egg
wrote:

On 2/11/07 12:23 PM, in article , "Dick
Adams" wrote:

R M. Watkin wrote:

The reason that people top post is because all the excess dross is not
sniped.

The reason that people top post is because they are too damn lazy
to snip the irrevelant portions of the message to which they are
responding.

This means you have to wade through the whole post to get to the
point.

This does not happen when posters follow net etiquette.

Hope this helps you.

Not really! What would really help is a psychiatric study identifying
the various other social disfunctionalities associated with people who
top-post to newsgroups.

Dick

Compared to the nuclear weapon development in Iran, top posting is pretty
minor.

Yeah! What he said! (Though one has to wonder why he is wasting time
on the Usernet [TM] instead of doing something useful like giving
mouth-to-mouth resucitation to puppies.)

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