Re: Top posting

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"RobinS" <RobinS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Brian Gideon" <briangideon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Apr 5, 6:24 am, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]
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I'ts always enlightening to read about other people's pet peeves. While
top -
posting can be an annoying idiosyncracy, it is nowhere near as high on
my
list as the inane "Me Too" posts and posts which ask questions that
provide
so little initial information that we must assume they think we are
using the
Telepathy API.
Peter

Speaking of pet peaves...one at the top of my list is automatically
assuming someone is asking a homework question. It's pretty annoying
to see accusations going back-and-forth before everyone realizes it
really was a legitimate question in the first place.


Yeah, there can be a lot of business reasons why a programmer needs to
ask how to write a routine to figure out the first 100 prime numbers, or
something like that...

Robin S.


Just to clarify, I was being facetious.

Robin S.
p.s. I bottom-posted this because he did. I never top-post if someone has
already bottom-posted first.


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