Little Endians and Big Endians! (was Re: Problem!)

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Sat Feb 4 08:05:28 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 18:45 +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 11:01:14 +0800
> "Michael T. Richter" <ttmrichter at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Damn!  I'm hard-pressed to think of *any* argument more f-ing ludicrous
> > than "top vs. bottom posting"!  This puts holy wars over OTB style to
> > shame for utter nonsense!
> 
> Welcome to the world ;=)
> You might not have noticed, but silly arguments seem to happen in every
> group or community.
> 
> The top vs. bottom posting one (which has been raging for years, not
> just here) reminds me of Swift's satire of Protestant vs, Catholic in
> "Gulliver's Travels", where he describes the wars between those who prefer
> to crack their eggs at the little or big end.


The little end of course..


Vram



> 
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> 
> Peter
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