Re: [tlug] OT: Beer

[Dave Brown <dagbrown@example.com>]

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 06:14:11PM +0900, Tod McQuillin wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Dave Brown wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 10:41:52PM +0900, Tod McQuillin top-posted:
>>> I would be up for going Friday May 30th -- anyone else?
>>
>> I dunno.  Do I REALLY want to hang out with the members of the
>> Microsoft Outlook fan club?
>
> Yeah probably not.
>
> Oh well, I'll be there drinking alone then :-/
>
> Actually, this has gotten to be a real problem in my professional life. 
> For the past many years, I have been avoiding top-posting like the
> plague.  About a year or two ago, I started getting complaints at work
> from lots of different people telling me that my emails were confusing
> and hard to read.

And in my personal life!  Once I replied to an email from a Nice Young
Lady in, y'know, the *normal* way, and she responded "Wow!  I love how
you broke my email up into little bits and replied to each bit
individually!  It's so creative and thoughtful!"

And then I hung my head in shame for the human race.

--Dave