Matto Marjanovic wrote: > >Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:56:33 +0000 > >From: raid517 <raid517@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > ... > >"Please don't top post.' > > > >Sorry I have no idea what top posting is (nor can I summon the energy > to >really care very much) other than it sounds like some geek was > having a [rant] > > (Sorry to drive this even further off-topic, but as a former dabbler in > cognitive science, I find is fascinating to see a rant about how the > writer has no idea what > "Please don't top post" > means, when the exact phrase quoted from the previous email is > "Please, don't top-reply". > > At least subconsciously, the writer knows to equate "top-reply" with > "top post". The response favors "top post", though, so it seems that > however ignorant the writer is of what the phrase means, he is certainly > familiar with it!) > > -matt m. > > PS: Here is the very first hit off of a Google search on "top posting": > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html > > >Nico Sabbi wrote: > ... > >> Please, don't top-reply > > > > Yes... and I'm not a lab rat either thanks. GJ PS. I'm glad you have time to waste looking up trivial and irrelevant information like this on Google. Unfortunately I don't.
