[Wolves] Top quoting, bottom quoting, bloody everything quoting

[Peter Cannon]

OK you got me?

I haven't the foggiest what your talking about?

I saw something about this the other day but didn't take much notice,
are you saying cut out most of the text and just leave your reply
comments and the paragraph/sentence that your reply relates too?

Tell me the rules (set it out in black and white clearly and precisely)
and I'll stick to em! Mind you while were on the subject Ive seen a
couple of cryptic postings today, people are either talking in code or
having dual conversations one directly and one via the list so that the
list postings make no sense.

Unless of course this is Top/Bottom posting in action.

On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:00, Matthew Revell wrote:
> Simon Burke wrote:
> 
> > On 22/3/04 1:53 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:44, Simon Burke wrote:
> >>
> >>>On 22/3/04 1:23 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> >>>wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:11, Simon Burke wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>On 22/3/04 12:35 pm, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> >>>>>wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 12:25, Simon Burke wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>On 22/3/04 11:55 am, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.couk>
> >>>>>>>wrote:
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:40, Simon Burke wrote:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>>On 22/3/04 10:34 am, "Peter Cannon" <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.couk>
> >>>>>>>>>wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>----<snip>------
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>10% Raise?!!
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>Yeah I was hoping for 20% but they got me down to 10%, its still better
> >>>>>>>than
> >>>>>>>what I was on, and at the end of this contract I will have a mcse :( and
> >>>>>>>hopefully a CCNA :) so can leave this hell hole
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>Ooh you ungrateful shwine-er-hunt (bad German impression) all zat luvley
> >>>>>>free training unt qualification mit ze kompanie you vork for.
> >>>>>>(back to English, fed up with that) Your just like the Nurses get all
> >>>>>>that free training then sod off to Saudi Arabia and earn lots of
> >>>>>>disgusting cash.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>HMm Hang on a minute, my name is sheik Abudi....................
> >>>>>
> >>>>>If this company wasn¹t so two bit I would stay, they even said that it will
> >>>>>be a term of the contract that if they can afford to keep me they will let
> >>>>>me go, so that to me says, go do your best to get a stable job. Though
> >>>>>using
> >>>>>them like this is a mutual one, because they are using me too because they
> >>>>>only hired me initially to setup the mac's being based on freeBSD. Which
> >>>>>was
> >>>>>what I was playing with at the time, since then they are now starting to
> >>>>>get
> >>>>>me to do some imaging and A/V support
> >>>>
> >>>>Ah so you are an abused child?
> >>>
> >>>Erm.... The only pain I've had recently is working with active directory and
> >>>MS server 2003 :(( I think I'm going to brign in my spare linux server and
> >>>watch him destry it like he always does. I think they got it right when they
> >>>said:
> >>>
> >>>$> SELECT * FROM management WHERE clue > 0
> >>>0 rows retuned
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>>Now im on RH Enterprise Server As and Oracle 10G.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Its funny trying to get oracle to work on one of my older machines. Thought
> >>>>>I'd try to install it on an old machine with a celeron 466 with 256RAM, oh
> >>>>>wow it fell over after half a day of trying. Remind me the time I had fun
> >>>>>with a load of old rage pros and played with them to see how far we could
> >>>>>overclock them. We stopped after one got that hot it fused itself to the
> >>>>>mobo. Don¹t you just love the machines that work throws away, so much fun
> >>>>>blowing them up
> >>>>
> >>>>I'd like to introduce myself, I'm an officer of the POCTCS (Prevention
> >>>>of cruelty to computer systems), by this statement you admit to wilfully
> >>>>murdering defenceless equipment, we have a special room for people like
> >>>>you! 20 minutes in the shower with Mr Big should stop you offending.
> >>>>
> >>>But but but. Damn I didn¹t want to do this, I have an Acorn A3010 hostage if
> >>>anyone tries something little RISCy here gets it
> >>
> >>(Through a megaphone) "OK Machine gun Simon put the kernel down and move
> >>away from the machine", "We've got a killer rabbit here and we're not
> >>afraid to use it"
> > 
> > No not the rabbit I surrender!!! please not the rabbit..  Anything but the
> > rabbit?? Is it a white rabbit?? I change my mind I wont give up unless its a
> > white rabbit.
> 
> Sorry for using your thread as an example, Peter and Simon.
> 
> Guys, now tell me that top posting is any more evil than bottom posting 
> :) It's indiscriminate quoting that is evil :)
> 
> Again, sorry Peter and Simon!

Regards

Peter Cannon

peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk