On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 09:52 -0600, Randy Paries wrote: > What is "top post", and i will be glad to stop doing it It is replying on top of another post. Look at yours in comparison to others. Use interspersed replies on this list (and most other lists) - where you reply to sentences directly below them, and snip out anything you're not responding to. Then we can tell precisely what you're responding to. Don't bottom post, either - where you quote the entire prior message then reply entirely below it. ----- Interspersed example: >>> Did you partition the drive? >> Yes >>> And format the partition? >> No > That's where your problem is ----- End of example See how it flows as a COHERENT conversation. It doesn't need interpreting, or guessing at, you can understand it directly. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.