[lbo-talk] Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox

[ravi]

Matthew Snyder wrote [kindly off-list]:
> Ha, the classic mistake!  Your message about proper attribution of
> quotes failed to attribute this quote:
> 
>>>I googled "top-posting," not knowing for sure what it was, and according
>>>to one discussion, it is not top-posting itself that offends but failure
>>>to clip (which often attends top-posting)
> 
> 
> to Carrol Cox.
> 
> I agree with your larger point re: top-posting, but I've always found
> it strange that it's seemingly impossible to write a spelling flame
> that doesn't include a spelling mistake of one's own (and so forth). 
> Why is that?
> 

replying onlist, since i deserve public humiliation for the error ;-).
matt, perhaps this sort of error should be an internet corollary to
murphy's law?

apologies for the public response -- i am assuming you (matt) wouldn't mind.

	--ravi