PTOLEARY wrote:
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> Oops, sorry. Do I detect top-posting?...
No, you didn't. I was forwarding a message in its entirety. Although I made a
brief prefatory comment, the message was what I was forwarding, and without any
reply to the original senders. Now if this were something that had already
been posted to bikies (it wasn't) and I was just replying to make the smart-ass
remark about MikeB's anti-hop snobbery and left all that previously posted
stuff appended to the comment, commenting out of sequence without deleting the
non-relevant part of it, THAT would be both top-posting and over-quoting! :-)
The following would be an example of top-posting:
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No, you didn't. I was intentionally forwarding a message in its entirety.
Although I made a brief prefatory comment, the message was what I was
forwarding, and without any reply to the original senders. Now if this were
something that had already been posted to bikies (it wasn't) and I was just
replying to make the smart-ass remark about MikeB's anti-hop snobbery and left
all that previously posted stuff appended to the comment, commenting out of
sequence without deleting the non-relevant part of it, THAT would be both
top-posting and over-quoting! :-)
Original message
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> Oops, sorry. Do I detect top-posting?...
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Now go have a beer,
Bob Paolino
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sticks instead of guns,
or is there more to it than that?"
--"This Canadian Existence"
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