<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 21 Jan 2007, at 8:43, Muckerheide wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><FONT face="Verdana"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0px; font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Because it is, by definition, “wrong” when it doesn’t conform to the mechanism built into the tool that they are using, especially when the tool then fails to work as intended, whether or not to their own detriment.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">As Wendy said, if you change the subject, be aware that people who use threads (who may be useful resources) won’t see your message.</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">And, of course, there’s nothing “wrong” with deciding to do it your way (i.e., “wrong” :-), but info on why that might not work as well as it could should be considered. </SPAN><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">And there’s nothing “wrong” with explaining it by calling it “wrong.” :-)</SPAN><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><BR style="font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; ">Regards, Jim</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Can the above be applied to the practice of "top posting" ?</DIV><DIV>(Hope this is read as irony not sarcasm!)</DIV><DIV>And</DIV></BODY></HTML>