"Warp" <war### [at] tagpovrayorg> wrote in message
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 -Shay

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Zeger Knaepen once wrote:

> "A: Top posters.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?"
> 
> that about sums it up :)
> 
> cu!

Whoops, didn't know it was *that* annoying! I'll clean up my act :)

-Samuel Benge

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Program ended abnormally on 08/04/2004 05:47, Due to a catastrophic Warp error:
> In povray.general Samuel Benge <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 
>>>PS. please do not top-post, answare *below* quote of post to with are You 
>>>answearing.
> 
> 
>>There are advantages to answering both ways, depending on how many 
>>statements I'm replying to.
> 
> 
>   Quoting properly is an art. But it's an art which everyone should master,
> in my opinion. It makes your articles more readable and better organized.
> 
>   Some people seem to lack the notion of being able to *edit* quotes.
> By editing I don't mean changing them (which you *never* should do,
> heaven forbid!), but to remove irrelevant parts in order to make the
> quotes as short and clear as possible (but of course you shouldn't remove
> relevant parts of the quote in such way that it may change the meaning of
> what you leave).

I think people are overly conscious about trimming posts because they don't want 
you to start raping their families.  ;-P

All humor aside, good explanation.

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Unless it is on Jeopardy, or a classic
Johnny Carson Karnak joke. ;-)


A:  Jack Nicholson, Bill Clinton, and Jerry Brown.

Q: Name a joker, a smoker, and a midnight toker."


Harold


"Zeger Knaepen" <zeg### [at] studentkuleuvenacbe> wrote in message
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> "A: Top posters.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?"
>
> that about sums it up :)
>
> cu!
> --
> camera{location-z*3}#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*(C/50)#end#macro L(b,e,k,l)#local
C=0
> ;#while(C<50)sphere{G(b,e),.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local
C=C+1
> ;#end#end
L(y-x,y,x,x+y)L(y,-x-y,x+y,y)L(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)L(-y,y,y+z,x+y)L(0,x+y,
> <.5,1,.5>,x)L(0,x-y,<.5,1,.5>,x)               // ZK
http://www.povplace.be.tf
>
>

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stb### [at] hotmailcom news:407### [at] hotmailcom

>> "A: Top posters.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?"


Because it reverses natural way of reading text (top-to-bottom).
Why?
Answewaring above quote and/or question (aka top-posting).
What is the most anoying thing on Usenet?

;-)

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"Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" <spa### [at] raf256com> wrote in message
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> stb### [at] hotmailcom news:407### [at] hotmailcom
>
> >> "A: Top posters.
> >> Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?"
>
> Because it reverses natural way of reading text (top-to-bottom).
> Why?
> Answewaring above quote and/or question (aka top-posting).
> What is the most anoying thing on Usenet?

hmm, makes me think... how about a short story (maybe just a few lines) that you
can read top to bottom or bottom to top and they both make sense, but it's an
entirely different story :)
how difficult would that be :)

cu!
--
camera{location-z*3}#macro G(b,e)b+(e-b)*(C/50)#end#macro L(b,e,k,l)#local C=0
;#while(C<50)sphere{G(b,e),.1pigment{rgb G(k,l)}finish{ambient 1}}#local C=C+1
;#end#end L(y-x,y,x,x+y)L(y,-x-y,x+y,y)L(-x-y,-y,y,y+z)L(-y,y,y+z,x+y)L(0,x+y,
<.5,1,.5>,x)L(0,x-y,<.5,1,.5>,x)               // ZK http://www.povplace.be.tf

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