<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: <blockquote cite="mid1100800443.3573.20.camel@rodolfo.gt.factorrent.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 10:06 -0500, Leonard Isham wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">To put it bluntly you are much more likely to get a kinder, gentler, more accurate and helpful response if you don't top post. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Leonard puts it well. I try to help people who top-post only if it looks like they recently came this way from MS-land and don't know any better. Those who say "that's how I like it, blow smoke" are not going to get any help at all. This is a *community*, and no one has any obligation to help anyone else. People who don't follow local custom aren't going to get along with the rest very well. Drive on the side of the road which is accepted where you are. How or where you drive at home is irrelevant, and insisting that "your way" (whatever that may be) is how you want everyone else to be is going to get you run over by a truck. Cheers, </pre> </blockquote> Leonard is wrong and you are as well. all of the people that TOP post need more help, since NEW questions should be in a NEW post instead of resuing a old thread Ghod </body> </html>