Re: The Apple ][ was crap

["Sheldon Simms" <sheldon@semanticedge.com>]

Im Artikel <B785A03F.242%sloopy@amishinfo.com> schrieb "sloopy malibu"
<sloopy@amishinfo.com>:

> hhmmmm... seems i have been 'top-posting' on the internet for 15 yaers

Interesting. Where in the internet have you been top posting for 15
years? With which program did you top post in the internet 15 years
ago?

> and on bbs's for about 18years... didnt even know i was doing it... some
> local bbs's even 'request' it be done... in my preference i rather
> 'top-posting' because it seems natural to read the response and if the
> reader didnt read the thread or is new he can scroll down for the
> background info while people who are in the know can just read the msg
> without scrolling (or scrolling if the msg is sufficently long enough...
> but IMHO complain about going one way or another is nit picking...
> 
> oh well... life goes on...
> 
> sloopy.
> 
>> From: derek.jolly@sage.com (Derek Jolly) Organization: We don' need no
>> steenking organisation. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sinclair,comp.sys.apple2
>> Date: 26 Jul 2001 08:15:58 GMT
>> Subject: Re: The Apple ][ was crap
>> 
>> Biggo <biggo@blue-win.ch>, in message <3B5E9491.778B9F35@blue-win.ch>,
>> wrote
>> 
>>> "Matthew S. Carpenter" wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Mo,
>>>> 
>>>> Cross-posting is when you post one message to more than news group by
>>>> putting more than one in the to: field of a message.
>>> 
>>> Now tell me: what is top-posting?
>> 
>> http://rivet.50megs.com/cssfolk.html#toppost should tell you what you
>> need to know. --
>> Derek Jolly (derek.jolly@sage.com) Web: http://rivet.50megs.com/
>> comp.sys.sinclair folklore FAQ: http://rivet.50megs.com/cssfolk.html
>> Transversion PC: http://rivet.50megs.com/games.html "If it's not for
>> you, just don't bloody watch it." - Chris Morris
> 


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