hank alrich wrote:

Pooh Bear wrote:

hank alrich wrote:

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He top posts. We've chewed his ass about it. He won't change that. I
wish he would.

Considering now simple it is to bottom post what exactly *is* his problem
with it ?

Given the difficulty of trying to explain that which one does not
understand, I pass. g

You're as much in the dark as the rest of us then ?


It comes over as some kind of quasi-religious obsession with him !

A funny aspect of it is that Roger is an extremely articulate person,
very nicely literate.

Indeed, that comes over in his posts. But why can't he post them appropriately ?
That's especially so relevant when it makes sense to intersperse comments in
amongst the original text so as to add continuity to the thread of ideas.


But his contributions and friendship mean more to me than whether or not
I can get him to post as I do.

Fair enough.

But I ain't saying I've given up, though I doubt calling him a **** over
it will further my progress, even if ****s are among the toughest stuff.

Well.... funnily enough in another ng we got a new contributor who was an
arrogant top-poster. Finally ( and this isn't my norm ) I posted a thread saying
'X is a top-posting f*wit'. I got lambasted for it - but X changed his ways when
he saw how unpopular his style was.

And note the ease with which he quickly apologized for his errant
assessment of your own contributions, which was most appropriate.

Yes, it hadn't escaped my attention. Had it not been top-posted I would most
likely have replied in kind.

Graham