On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:16 -0400, Sam Mason wrote: > In the case of two (or another small number) of people in limited > discussion the copy-everything mode of top-posting doesn't matter. > Efficiency concerns really don't matter most of the time here.
To paraphrase former US Senator Barry Goldwater, a gigabyte here, a gigabyte there, and pretty soon you are talking real storage.[1] > > > I think the preserve the thread argument is spurious, both for the > > reason which I think Patrick pointed out, and also because, how many > > copies of every email in a conversation does anyone need? > > I'm still amazed nobody noticed my changes to Pete's message--that > was the only reason I top-posted. Which is why the argument is spurious. When people top-post, nobody reads the quote for context anyway. ... LIke I said, businesses grow and prosper due to business' belief that changing bad behavior is hopeless, and some automated data slenderizer is the only answer. [1] The actual quote went something like "a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you are talking real money". He said this when national budgets of industrialized nations were measured in the billions, not yet trillions. -- Art Alexion MIS _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
