Re: Top posting (was Re: Concatenating an array into one string?)

From: Shawn Corey (shawn.corey_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:59:32 -0400

Tad McClellan wrote:
> Please help me learn what you know by naming one or two
> Big 8 newsgroups where top-posting is preferred.
>
> Thank you.

Why are you limiting this to 8 when there are thousands of newsgroups
available? Eight is not statistically significant in this size of
population.

        --- Shawn

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