ceed wrote:
> Dave Bugg > wrote:
> > Jimbo (?) wrote
>
> >> Wal-Mart sells Royal Oak Lump in Destin FL.....Garden dept not food
> >> area. and cheap $5.99 a big bag.

> > Hi, Jimbo. Be kind, and please don't top-post
>
> And now my two cents on the top-posting issue:
>
> A newsgroup is (usually) a dialog. The "dia" is important, The dia means
> it's more than one, at least two, participating in a verbal or oral
> exchange. So you need at least two of these events at once for it to make
> any sense. Without that what you have is just a statement out of context.
> This explains why top-posting is troublesome since one is left with only
> the "log" in the dialog. A "log" may be good for BBQ, but not for
> effective communication. For that we need the "dia" *and* the "log"

Very nicely put 'ceed'. The only place I can think of where the Answer
precedes the Question is on some Game Show, which, thankfully, I don't know
the name of.

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