OT Annoying Habits (Was: when format strings attack)
Roel Schroeven
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Sat Jan 20 10:52:13 EST 2007
Paul Rubin schreef:
> No. Top posting has always been an aberrance. It first appeared in
> Usenet when Usenet (a word whose etymology comes from "Unix" and
> "network") started attracting Microsoft Windows users, who were in the
> habit of using Windows products that top-posted. That happened fairly
> far along in Usenet's evolution
Yep. The time when things started to go wrong is sometimes pinpointed as
september 1993 and referred to as "Eternal September"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September).
--
If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood
on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton
Roel Schroeven
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