On 3/21/2009 10:57 AM John J spake thus:

Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:

In article ,
John J wrote:

No problem. Information is most important. I've been on a network
messaging system of sone kind sice 1976. My skin is thick to whiners and
you ain't one of 'em,.

So, you know, if you walk into a restaurant, and everyone is talking
quietly, you probably have good enough manners to not start shouting
even if that's what you'd do in a loud bar.

Did I mess up somewhere?

Good manners for *this* "network messaging system" require that you not
top-post, and that you edit quoted material for relevance and respond
inline and at the bottom -- not the top.

Just for the record, I top-posted when I saw the author was Erie. I know
Erie, and was trying to be accommodating to his top-post.

Why? You know what he did was wrong. You normally bottom-post yourself:
why bend over to accommodate someone breaking protocol?


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Made From Pears: Pretty good chance that the product is at least
mostly pears.
Made With Pears: Pretty good chance that pears will be detectable in
the product.
Contains Pears: One pear seed per multiple tons of product.

(with apologies to Dorothy L. Sayers)