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[QUOTE="Robert Scott, post: 2429826"]
Conventions are standards that are agreed to by all or most of the
participants.  The prohibition against top-posting is not one of them,
except in the mind of a few zelots.  You are free to express your
opinion that you think top-posting is impolite, but when you try to
assign any authority to that opinion, don't be surprised if someone
like me calls you on it.

All these analogies are of one-on-one interactions.  Usenet involves
many-to-one interactions.  One person's request for what he thinks is
politeness has to be weighed with what others in the group think.
Just because one person is pissed whenever he sees top-posting that
does not mean everyone in the group, or even a majority of the group,
is similarly pissed.  I just don't care.  But I do care when people
who are self-appointed Internet cops try to make people feel like they
have done something wrong when in fact their crime was minimal or
non-existent.

-Robert Scott
 Ypsilanti, Michigan
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