"Bill" wrote in message
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On 10/29/2010 2:45 PM, W wrote:
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W wrote:
I am not a builder, so I don't know the precise language to use to
identify
different building materials and construction techniques.

For me particle board and fiberboard are both equally low quality
products,
and I want to avoid both. I asked my cabinet maker, and he said that
he
is
using a birch plywood that is A grade on top and C grade on bottom
(but
he
thought it was actually a B grade). That is the same quality of
construction I would want to buy in an off the shelf product, even if
it
cost more than fiberboard or particle board. Does that help you
identify
the type of construction I want?

I am looking for off the shelf, completed cabinets, made of birch or
equal
quality plywood, with real wood veneers. Does any web site sell
those?


W, This was very confusing to read since you top-posted. Good luck with
your cabinets.

The reason I top posted was that my news application has a bug and on
some
posts it doesn't quote the text I am responding to. It would be even
more
confusing to have my response run on together with the original text,
undifferentiated.

The message was very small in any case, so really it was not that hard
to
read both parts.


How do you know how much time I or anyone else spent trying to decipher
your message?

I went back to the message you objected to and turned on a stopwatch. I
read every word carefully, slowly, deliberately, and it took me 24 seconds.
Assuming someone was confused by the arrangement, I guess that might be a
minute. So to answer the question: I know because I tested it objectively.

But the other point is that if a message confronts you that you don't like -
for any reason including layout - you also have an option to just ignore it.
I do normally bottom post, and the only times I top post are when the
newsreader is not helping to arrange quoted text.

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W