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On Sunday 25 February 2007, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@××××.dk> wrote |
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about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade': |
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> And please stop top-posting (shamelessly copied from one of Boyd's |
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> posts..): |
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I shamelessly copied it from someone else [*], so I don't really deserve |
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the credit. I thought it was one of the Neils that first posted it (at |
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least to the gentoo-* lists). |
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> A: It reverses the reading order of the conversation. |
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> Q: Why's top-posting so bad? |
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> A: Top-posting and insufficient quote trimming. |
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> Q: What's the most annoying thing on mailing lists and USENET? |
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Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. |
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[*] Well, I actually retype it each time so it changes a bit... I'm still |
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searching for the optimal wording. |