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[David Stockhoff]

So then bottom-posting is qualitatively like whispering in a common 
meeting area? This seems equally problematic. In fact, that is exactly 
what I don't like about bottom-posting.

On 1/7/2011 3:12 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 1/7/2011 8:41 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> I appreciate that. Actually. I did not feel singled out, but I don't
>> respond well to seeing others browbeaten either, and I thought things
>> were heading in that direction. I just want to be clear that _I_
>> top-post because I want to, and so further suggestions about that do not
>> need to be directed to me. I was also satirically suggesting that
>> instead everyone should do what _I_ want, but no one laughed, so let's
>> forget it.
>>
>> Are we good?
>
> No, because insisting on top posting as you please on a mailing list 
> is qualitatively like insisting on talking over other people as you 
> please in a common meeting area. The disruption of communication is 
> less extreme, but no less gratuitous after it has been explained.
>


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