Re: REQ: Train ascii

--(Once apon a time, in alt.ascii-art,)--
		--(Poster said it like only they can.)--
> Top post MIGHT be a sin...but it is what you want to say...and
> the reference to it is under the reply. Otherwise YOU HAVE TO
> READ lines and lines of test that you have already read and
> search for your reply. Here with a top post it is clear at a
> glance. I DO NOT THINK IT IS A SIN...
> 
> ?:)
> 

First of all, before this gets out of hand, let me say that I was not
trying to chastise you in the original comment about top posting.  I
feel this conversation has already gone far beyond my intent to make a
quick note that its not proper to top post.

Below you will find my response.  But only read it if you are not
prepared to let this die.



---- grab asbestos suit----

It's called etiquette.  In the your remarks above we have this line:
> READ lines and lines of test that _you_ have already read and
> search for _your_ reply

Its not about You or Me.  Thats what etiquette is all about.  There
are perhaps a few thousand to a few hundred thousand people reading
any given usegroup.  Top posting is about them, not You or Me. They do
not want to read someone's reply and then have to go down the page to
see what was being referenced.  Look beyond yourself.

By the way sin comment was a joke.  Why is it that you take every
thing I say so seriously?  This is alt.ascii-art!  This is supposed to
be a fun place.  If someone is mentioning sin then its probably in
the form of a joke.  If this was alt.christian.debate and I said top
posting was a sin then you should take it seriously.  But it is not.

/me is really glad that he did not, after all, use, in the original sin
comment, the Greek form of Repent which translates better as Reform.
First the use of a needless Greek word, namely Metanoeo, would have
been excessive[0] but in addition there is a clear meaning in
Metanoeo, aka reform.  Repent simply means "admit your mistake" which
it would have been nice if done so but instead he remained obstinate.  
Reform means "don't do it again".  Those are two very different
meanings.  Imagine if at a church they said "reform" instead of the
longer "repent, and sin no more".  Much more concise the first way,
don't you think?  With my luck Poster would have known the difference
and taken it even more offensively. 




[0] = An intelligent person always seeks to enlighten.  The ignorant
person always seeks to obscure.





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