From: floyd@... (Floyd L. Davidson) Date: 2006-09-02T23:30:38+09:00 Subject: Re: Off topic: What is "top posting" ?? William Crawford wrote: >unknown wrote: >> William Crawford wrote: >>>Only when taken out of context. You shouldn't split my paragraphs and >>>try to make each sentence an entire argument by itself. >> >> This is typical of your entire article. Nothing was out of >> context, and no attempt to make each sentence stand alone. > >If you seperate a portion of a statement from the rest of it, you have >taken it out of context. You can't dispute that. It's what it means. >You took a single sentence from a paragraph and responded only to it. That is a dishonest statement. >> I.e., your discussion appears to be emotional, illogical, >> and done for the sake of argument. >> >> I'll opt out, as it is much the same as tickling trolls. > >What!? MINE is? My only contention is that top-posting is not >inherently wrong. Yours is that it is because it confuses some people >and pisses them off. More dishonesty. I've never said any such thing. >THAT is the emotional argument. 'Some people' are >not 'all people.' Without any facts to back that up, 'some people' >could be 2 in a billion or 2 in 3. We don't know. I could easily as >say that bottom posting confuses some people because we've had people in >this very thread say so. PLONK -- Floyd L. Davidson Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) floyd@apaflo.com