-----Original Message----- From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: OT: Top Posting Date: 05/14/24 13:41:17
On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 05:01:31PM +0000, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: > how many times has this top post crap been dug up > don't y'all have any thing better to do It's never going to stop. We have a clash of two cultures here. The first culture are Unix users who grew up with Internet email and Usenet news. For people in this culture, there is a well-defined set of "netiquette" rules -- plain text messages, inline quoting with "> " citation characters, lines limited to ~72 characters, etc. Too funny for words! Make that twice now that I've seen line length mentioned here on Debian in over a decade++. I also referenced the inline quoting method since my new chosen email software appears to be failing with its default on that feature. Will try AGAIN to fix that as soon as I hit "Send" here BECAUSE tech reply emails are difficult to follow without those stacked ">" over ">>" pointers attached showing who said what when. And, yeah, netiquette, that's the word echoed across the Internet. I totally forgot that in my own response. It's not users picking on each other. It's a respectful "virtual handshake approved" set of standards with the straightforward purpose of putting everyone on as close to the same page as is humanly possible. PS Afterthought is that email signatures are another of that widely accepted netiquette set of standards. I consciously altered mine many years ago after reading about that, most likely also here on Debian- User. Might have been over on W3C, too, now that I think about it. That's where I first heard of Linux circa 1999. W3C's Linux reference was about installing HTML validators locally, and the rest is terminal command line history. Thank you, Developers! What you all do and that works so near flawlessly in nanoseconds still.. blows my mind to this.. second. Watching daily upgrades methodically unfold as each package successfully coordinates its place in line with the others is pure magic. :) Cindy :) -- Talking Rock, Pickens County, North Georgia * runs with birdseed! *