Re: ASCII Stuff

Don't be so damned anal. I personally don't have a problem with either
top or bottom posting, and prefer top-posting in email correspondence.
I do, however, dislike the mixing of the two in a long thread, without
snipping the content not germane to the reply.

ABCGi <abc...@codemonkey.com.au> wrote:
>>>>Please don't top post.
>> Let me second that.  Don't top post.  Its bad. 
>> http://asciipr0n.com/fp/linux/top-posting.txt
>Agreed.

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