[Tfug] top/bottom and middle posting

[Angus Scott-Fleming]

On 17 Feb 2009 at 9:44, Bexley Hall  wrote:

> Hi, Jim,
> 
> --- On Tue, 2/17/09, Jim Secan <jim at nwra.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why must there be One True Method of Posting?
> 
> <shrug>  Perhaps for the same reason we say "Hello"
> when we *meet* someone and "Good-bye" when we depart?

Is this why Italians say "ciao" and Hawaiians say "aloha" for both occasions?