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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:42:51 +0200
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org>
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Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad
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At 5:54 PM +0530 2004-08-30, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:

>  You're equating top-posting to an undone fly?  Excuse me, take a look
>  at the real world sometime.  It's more like telling your friend at the
>  beach that his necktie is knotted unsymmetrically.

	I notice how you conveniently snip the part where I have 
dissected your argument and shown it to be fundamentally fallacious, 
and now rail on about how you perceive top posting to be a benign 
thing.

	Interesting argument technique you've got there.

-- 
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