Re: Help!!

Gene E. Bloch filted:

I'm not sure when the preference for bottom posting came to be; it was
not the convention in my earliest days on Usenet, but nowadays some
people claim it is the convention.

It became the convention when people stopped responding to things that hadn't
yet been said and began answering questions after they had been asked....r


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It's the crack on the wall and the stain on the cup that gets to you
in the very end...every cat has its fall when it runs out of luck,
so you can do with a touch of zen...cause when you're screwed,
you're screwed...and when it's blue, it's blue.
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