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From: The Ancient One
Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:39

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"The Arcane Chas" <Chas@the-arcane.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
news:38VoZgAzDG+$Ewxf@the-arcane.demon.co.uk...
> In article <vvgh4goo0e372b@corp.supernews.com>, but only after serious
> contemplation, Margolis <someone@somewhere.org> put finger to keyboard
> and produced the following;
> >
> >I don't mind top posting, as long as most of the extraneous garbage is
> >trimmed so that it is clear what you are replying to.  It just makes it
hard
> >to follow what someone is replying to when there is a lot of different
> >messages in a post, and some are top and some are bottom posts.  But of
> >course that goes both ways, everybody should trim the parts of the post
out
> >that they are not replying too.
>
> I half agree with you here.
>
> One of the problems with top-posting is that it encourages people to
> "forget" to snip - after all, everything off the bottom of the screen is
> someone else's problem ........... right?
>
> The (lost?) art of snipping is a separate (although often related)
> issue.
>

Unfortunatly 99% of bottom posters neglect the snippage as well, which makes
it even harder to find the response.

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From: "The Ancient One" <onlytheone@thetopknows.com>
Newsgroups: alt.games.redalert2, alt.games.command.and.conquer, alt.games.redalert
Subject: Re: Boycott Red Alert 3
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:39:25 -0500
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