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-[Top-posting|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting] is an activity reviled by many on USENET. Sometimes responses to this can be quite heated. However, such anger simply invites retaliation in kind, which leads us nowhere.
+[Top-posting|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting] is an activity reviled by many on USENET, as being a violation of [Netiquette]
. Sometimes responses to this can be quite heated. However, such anger simply invites retaliation in kind, which leads us nowhere.
Therefore, let me suggest an alternative approach: humour. Specifically, barbed satire in reply to a top-poster's posting, taking old jokes that have often been targeted (unfairly) against various ethnic groups, or (more legitimately) against various professions or other activities, and putting them to a better use. An example illustrates the basic form:
A: Skid-marks in front of the hedgehog.<br>
