On Apr 20, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: > On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Nick Arnett wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Ronn! Blankenship < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read >>> text. >>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> >> >> And yet, Jeopardy has been on the air for 25 years. > > On the *air*. NOT on internet e-mail lists. > > Apples and zebras. :)
By which you mean, of course, that they are in the same class of objects: things that are commonly used to represent letters of the English alphabet to children. Just so, Jeopardy, an oft-instructional program on a medium that is often used to waste time, is like an Internet mailing list, on oft-instructional activity that is often a waste of time. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
