What is this? Day Three? What is the standing record on this list for flame wars?
You guys need to do a sanity check. These posts are nothing more than SPAM and Ive just added to it. I feel so dirty now. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/17/2004 9:08:09 AM >>> > -----Original Message----- > From: Gonzalo Servat > Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:34 AM > > Sorry to butt into this thread, but I think this is where you went > wrong. There was absolutely no need to quote 70+ lines of text to say > what you had to say. You're supposed to quote the relevant bits (as I > did with this email), not the entire thread. > It's an open mailing list, you're not butting in at all. I agree with you completely, however, there is this great tool called 'exageration' that is sometimes used to make a point when a real-world example would be too small to be perceived as signifigant. For those nay-sayers, please look at my post carefully. I bottom posted, keeping the existing style, and while I left the quoted material untrimmed, I also mentioned the other extreme, which is to completely exclude any quoted material at all. The bottom line of this issue is that everyone has their preferences, and no amount of crying and whining will cause the other side to comply with your wishes. There are valid reasons for both posting styles, live with it. Those who continue to whine and cry about top posting need to be larted with a vengence. It's like the last cry of those who lost the vi-vs-emacs debate. Just because you prefer one over the other doesn't make everyone else 'wrong.' IMO, the top-vs-bottom topic really needs to be classified right along side with the RH-vs-Debian, red-vs-blue, unix-vs-windows, ford-vs-chevy, linux-vs-bsd, and other similar cases of personal preferences. The is no winner, there never will be a winner. BTW, for those of you who are curious, I too dispise HTML formatted email in a mailing list environment. I also dislike those who flagrantly disregard existing styles within a thread (but, it's ok if different threads have different styles). I also have very low regard for those among us who would hijack a thread. I don't use a threaded mail reader myself (sucks to be me), but when browsing archives by thread, it's really annoying to find questions about personal lubricant in the middle of a heated debate about top-vs-bottom. Of course, sometimes a thread will mutate naturally, at which point, it may be appropriate to change the subject (which I'm not going to do, since I'm too damned lazy. Oh, for those curious, my single, biggest beef with mailing lists, is the inclusion of a list tag in the Subject: line. I know it's Asterisk-Users, because it says so in the To: line. It also says so in the List-ID: and Sender: lines. -- Troy Settle Pulaski Networks http://www.psknet.com 866.477.5638 _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users