Top-posting shenanigans (was: Re: ASR33 $1000+ And Counting...)

David H. Barr dhbarr at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 00:38:39 CST 2005


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 22:22:12 -0800 (PST), Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:

> > > Considering that I've never heard a single word about this in my
> > > approximately
> > > two years on the list (and two decades using newsgroups), and that I've
> > > never
> > > even heard the term "top-posting" at all in whole life

> > Well, actually, you probably HAVE heard about top posting before if you read
> > the list, because the way I found out about it was when several people
> > chided a few list members for it publicly on the list. This happened (at
> > least when I noticed it) about a year ago, and again more recently I
> > believe.

> I really don't remember this discussion in the past, but maybe if you finally
> get that search feature working...  :)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&site=classiccmp.org&q=MY_QUERY
is all the search I've needed so far. I figure if it's new enough not
to be in Google's Index, I probably read it the first time around....

-dhbarr.



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