Re: OT Kinda - Top Posting
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Thu, 11 Mar 2004 18:55:18 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: OT Kinda - Top Posting | ||
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On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 13:45, Jason Wong wrote:
> On Friday 12 March 2004 01:51, Robert Cummings wrote:
>
> > sheeple == sheeple
> > (the sheep like followers in both cases not necessarily thinking and
> > choosing for themselves)
>
> I think this is a reference to the sheeple who accept unquestioningly what MS
> gave them?
This seems pointed... at me :) so I feel the need to mention that I use
Evolution under Linux and have been for a fair number of years now.
> But sometimes being stubbornly wrong just because you don't want to be a sheep
> can be just as bad.
Agreed -- when you are are irrefutably wrong.
> Anyway the last word I'll say on this is that top-posting usually results in
> your message going to the trash can unread (sometimes it may be read but it
> will still be thrown into the trash with digust!)
Which is just as silly as being stubbornly wrong just because you don't
want to be a sheep, since the potential to lose out on real knowledge is
possible just because you don't like someone's style. But alas, to each
their own.
Cheers,
Rob.
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