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   Scott Dorsey to mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
   Re: If you were to design a netnews prot   
   31 Aug 24 23:47:26   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article <874j749xk4.fsf@enoch.nodomain.nowhere>,   
   Mike Spencer   wrote:   
   >   
   >Anton Shepelev  writes:   
   >   
   >> Chris Hennessy (chenness@enterprise.powerup.com.au) wrote:   
   >>   
   >> The brothers Usas and Senda, despairing of the state of UseNet, went   
   >> unto the mountain at the feet of Net.God.  "Oh Net.God, there is   
   >> confusion and sorrow in your place of UseNet.  The people worship false   
   >> gods and knowst not your will."   
   >   
   >Interesting to note that top-posting wasn't mentioned by Net.God in   
   >His commandments.   
      
   I do not think top-posting existed at the time that was written.  Top   
   posting is a relatively recent horror.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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