[plug] Top posting?

Clare Johnstone clare at cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Wed Jun 23 15:29:56 WST 2004


> From: Onno Benschop <onno at itmaze.com.au>
> Eg. I was saying that, yes, screen readers for sight impaired people was
> a good argument for top-posting. The first one I'd heard in 14 years.
>
> So, how am I disappointing you exactly?

Well earlier you had said rather a lot along these lines:
>If theparagraph I wrote needed to make sense on its own, it would have to
>be re-written like this:
> Sight impaired people using screen readers is the *first*...

>Now, I could in fact do that, but from a sequence of events perspective,
>I'd also have to state somewhere that Adam wrote it, so then it would
>become:  etc etc

and it sounded contrived and that disappointed me, it was such an
immediate reaction that I posted it. Silly me. Normally I keep my big
mouth shut. You get this reply only because you asked for it.
(And I post top or bottom as it pleases me, and I am happy for others
to do the same.)

clare




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