On 2013-01-29 19:35, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jan 29, 2013, at 10:39 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johan...@gmail.com>
wrote something about learning to read like the rest of the world.
Indeed, I did learn, like most of the rest of the world today, to simply reply.
And I learned to occasionally establish context with paraphrasing, and the
occasional quote, when needed. Wholesale hand duplication of someone's letter
to me, while replying to them inline, or at the bottom, would have been
ridiculous. For many hundreds of years, all over the world, readers had good
enough short term memory that merely receiving a reply was sufficient for
effective communication, even among multiple parties.
In effect, for most of human history, most of the world historically top posts.
What has encouraged bottom posting and in-line response, is the perverted email
client automatic quoting feature, when replying; not that bottom posting is any
more or less, sensible than top posting.
Chris Murphy
It's all my fault, I know, but still: the subject of this thread is
about firstboot. I dropped a short note about the agreements and
guidelines we have on this list, hopefully seen as a friendly reminder -
I had no other intent.
If someone wants to start a new thread about the guidelines for making
a reply on fedora-devel, please do. But I suggest that we close this
threadlet instead of hijacking the subject to discuss something enterily
different.
--alec
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