Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes · 01 Sep 2006, 00:37 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: danldo at gmail.com (Dan'l Danehy-Oakes)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:37:30 -0700
Subject: (urth) Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry
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On 8/31/06, maru dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally, I rather like the term "interleaving". To me, it makes it
> sound as if our conversations are collaboratively authoring a book,
> each page of which is a section.

Whereas I get twitchy when I hear or read the word "author" used as
a verb...

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Dan'l Danehy-Oakes, writer, trainer, bon vivant
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