Re: looking for hardware source

Anonymous. wrote:
The case for top-posting is won when those against resort
to infantile ad hominem remarks.

Top, bottom and middle postings are just minor variations
on style, up to the individual. The content of messages is that
which is important.

You are forgetting that in posting one is asking a favor of the reader to consider your words. One should show respect by making the effort to use good grammar and spelling. To choose one's words carefully. To be brief. And format appropriately and cleanly. This is also why HTML news/email is A Bad Thing.

Failure to reply in the proper format will cause many to ignore one's reply. If you want a reply then you will reply in the format expected by those who are capable of answering.

OK, here's a reply which is bottom-posted. Are you happy now?

Is hard for some to understand how one might not be happy to be proven correct. "Anonymous." provided an excellent example of poor communication (infantile too). At least he/she trimmed a bit. Real Top Posters Never Trim.

"David Kelly" <n4hhe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:13o4i8pii8n7l55@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
JeffM wrote:
There 2 kind of people who top-post: lazy and ignorant.
Top-posters are poor communicators.

The case for top-posting is won when those against resort
to infantile ad hominem remarks.

Top, bottom and middle postings are just minor variations
on style, up to the individual. The content of messages is that
which is important.

OK, here's a reply which is bottom-posted. Are you happy now?
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