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[SpamCop-List] Re: Top posting works in a few places. Not here.

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Sun Jun 12 18:37:47 EDT 2005


Larry Kilgallen wrote:

> In article <d8hlkm$md$1 at news.spamcop.net>, "John Richards"
> <jr70 at blackhole.invalid> writes:
>> Mike Easter wrote:
>>> 
>>> In almost all newsgroups top posting simply doesn't work.  Can't work.
>> 
>> Mike, do you ever browse the groups under msnews.microsoft.com?
>> Fully 80% of the posts there are top-posted, including the ones by
>> Microsoft employees.
> 
> But certainly those are a small fraction of the total number of
> newsgroups.

As it isn't alt.* or the Big 8, it's not Usenet.  Just some proprietary,
backwater news heirarchy from some proprietary, backwater company that
wouldn't know what standards were if it bit them in the ass.

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