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Jul 22, 2003, 4:06pm

[View Quote] Actually, it's not. It is a very common practice on USENET (especially
in newsgroup like alt.php or alt.comp.lang.cpp), for obvious reasons.

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Jul 22, 2003, 6:34pm

[View Quote] What is your point? You can do it with words because they're _not_
spoken. Just like your teacher can write between the lines to tell you
to not do this, or to do that. Same principle. Although you can go
"When you said blah blah blah... I think that it's really yadda yadda
yadda... and then when you said yakkity yakkity yak... I thought it
should've been dingly dingly doo." It's the _same_ thing as breaking up
someone's post.

> As far as I'm concerned, if you can't comment on the general idea of a
> person's post, or at least sum up their points in a couple paragraphs,
> then don't bother commenting at all.

We're not writing synopses of newspaper articles... we're discussing.
Discussions are exact and to the point, not on general idea of the whole
pile of donky crap.

If you don't want to read it, don't... again... I don't have to comment
just like you don't have to read.

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Jul 23, 2003, 12:00pm

[View Quote] As far as I'm aware, OE does _not_ have an option to switch from top to
bottom. If it does, it's sadly hidden in thousands of lines of registry
entries. I think pressing a button is fairly easy, how about you?
Easier for you then for us to switch it to top posting for this sole
newsgroup.

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Jul 23, 2003, 2:43pm

[View Quote] Who's the one who complains about arguing a moot point, every time, but
argues one of _the_ most argued points on the internet?

> And as for any other newsgroups you may frequent, I highly doubt they're
> *that* anal about top vs. bottom posting, especially with the wide
> proliferation of OE users who have no choice in the matter. If they can
> put up with it, so can you.

Right, try top posting in any USENET newsgroup, see how anal they get.
And you think _I'm_ bad.

Ask anyone who's posted on USENET.

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Jul 23, 2003, 3:56pm

[View Quote] I'm wondering why you are then.

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Jul 23, 2003, 4:35pm

[View Quote] Duh, I know that. What I'm saying in my own little "mine is annoying to
you and yours is annoying to me little speech" is ... exactly that. Top
posting annoys me, bottom and inline posting annoys him.

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Jul 23, 2003, 4:38pm

[View Quote] Invest in a scroll mouse, it'll be the best $20 you ever spent on a
computer product.

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Jul 23, 2003, 4:45pm

[View Quote] Then you're simply not efficient if you cannot use the means available
to you after you click on a post (and efficently waste energy at
accomplishing nothing). Stop reading my posts if I'm forcing you to
burn too many calories or cost you too many pennies for the megawatts
you use.

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Jul 23, 2003, 4:52pm

[View Quote] Well, if your resolution is set at 640x480 (antiquated according to
me... since bottom posting and USENET are to you) there's going to be
little chance of you seeing anything of value at first entry into a
post. Otherwise, most of the time unless you don't run a window
maximized, you should see everything.

That is to say, if you don't run your window maximized, it's _your_
problem you don't see it when you double click.

Do you write in cursive or do you print?

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Jul 23, 2003, 8:11pm

[View Quote] Oh, low blow by Andras. That was good. ;)

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:33am

[View Quote] I, somehow, am not saddend by the loss of Just In, or your, reading of
my posts. Somehow.

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:34am

[View Quote] And the trouble-making of "the kid".

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:35am

[View Quote] Have you used other newsreaders? See, this is why top posting is a
problem. I don't _exactly_ know what the hell you're talking about in
my post. Snip all relevent information or inline post. Please.

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Jul 22, 2003, 4:02pm

[View Quote] He did get it.

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Jul 23, 2003, 7:57pm

[View Quote] :-\ -ship is a suffix denoting state, profession, etc. Hence
internship, citizenship, dictatorship, et al. Don't confuse the suffix
with the noun... even though you were joking it just didn't make sense
cause pirates are rare now. :P

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:30am

[View Quote] Someone's getting belligerent to people... I thought you were against
that Mr. Goober.

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:32am

[View Quote] Don't fall off into the data stream then. I hear it has nasty wane zones.

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Jul 23, 2003, 4:58pm

Ooo, that's actually a nice one.

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Jul 23, 2003, 8:02pm

[View Quote] Maybe his little brother comes in and presses the reboot button when
he's not looking.

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Jul 23, 2003, 4:49pm

I'll top post this since it's short... and everyone else has kittens
when I bottom post. (no pun intended)

Andras if free... there are a few others that are free as well (KAH,
although not that relaible when his connection shoots out for no reason :P )

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:17pm

[View Quote] No. He's correct in his assumptions of what the gate is and should be
and what makes it bad currently.

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:29pm

[View Quote] And your basing your assumption on that I talk all the time at the gate
when I'm there? Please. I lurk for a reason.

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:33pm

[View Quote] Quickly, use your brain. How would you know I was there? If we agree
I'm lurking, you have no visual acknowledgement if I'm there or not.

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:35pm

[View Quote] *claps* GK spam too, I almost forgot about that one. I assume you're
talking about the morphine-drip blibber blabber.

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:46pm

[View Quote] Game, set, and match. You've yet to show proof.

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Jul 23, 2003, 5:48pm

[View Quote] It _changes_ now and again, without too much of a complaint from the
local denizens. At least you aren't _threatened_ from straying from
that mindless dribble drabble, here though. As long as you semi-make sense.

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Jul 23, 2003, 6:25pm

[View Quote] And, thus, you're at the common place where "I don't really have proof,
but I'll just say I don't need to show you it to hide that I really
don't have it and I'll just keep saying you're wrong even though it's
still not hiding the fact that I don't have anything." How many of us
have not used that before? Really, you _must_ be daft. There's no
other explination otherwise.

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Jul 23, 2003, 6:54pm

[View Quote] Okay, I won't be on Bowen though.

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:27am

[View Quote] I welcome dislikes and different opinions, as long as it doesn't turn
into attacks on said peoples or things. Such as the bush is a monkey
theme common with Europeans.

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Jul 24, 2003, 3:28am

[View Quote] It's right... if you're Jewish or Yoda. They both talk that way. It's
"Correct, he is." Though. :)

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