Top posted on purpose <bg:

I don't know how long your reader keeps old messages, but you may want to
bookmark/add to favorites this google link:

http://groups.google.co.uk/advanced_...=group:*excel*

And here's an unofficial set of tips for new posters (from Chip Pearson's site):
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/newposte.htm

Tips #11 and #10 are relevant.

(Yes, in the MS Excel Newsgroups, most regulars break the normal usenet rules.)

ps. I bought LU shares and had more of the "bottom posting" experience than
your "top posting" experience with MSFT shares <bg.

Dallman Ross wrote:

In , Dave Peterson
spake thusly:

Glad google helped.

I like Google, but I didn't use Google to search. I used my Unix-
platform, text-based newsreader, tin. :-)

And in the MS newsgroups, top posting is pretty much the rule.
Bottom posting is the exception. Well, in the *excel* newsgroups
anyway.

I know. But a purist's habits die hard. I hate top-posting
with a passion, but read this group anyway because of great
people like you. But Microsoft is to a large extent responsible
for the execrable top-posting phenomenon we have today . . . :-)

(I'll Note, however, that I bought 30 shares of an arguably
unremarkable start-up high-tech company's stock in 1986 on a flyer.
I still own that stock; you may have heard of the company. Its
symbol is MSFT. In other words, Not to worry, I owe more than a
little to Microsoft.)

Oh, and I'll have to allow myself one tiny dig here, perhaps best
passed on via the following URL (which I have nothing to do with
except that I enjoy its message). Please pay particular attention
to the last bullet-paragraph of the last part of the last section,
Section 2.4; i.e., the end of the page (which section is also
hyperlinked from the top.) Yes, I know a newsgroup isn't a mailing
list; the logic and etiquette for communicating are similar,
though.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M16F51D39

Thanks,
Dallman Ross

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Dave Peterson