> And it's about time the old farts got over their indignation at top > posting, anyway. It's become common usage, and really most logic > against top posting was derived out of limited view 80x24 terminal > screens and Usenet.
Logic? It's _rudeness_, not illogic, that bothers me. Top-posting is saying "my taking a few seconds to think about what I'm replying to and extract the relevant bits is more important than your taking a few seconds (or more, especially when the history trail is long) (multiplied by the number of readers, making it particularly egregious for list mail) to try to figure out what I'm talking about". That's arrogant and thus rude. Logic and screen size have nothing to do with it. > Top posting is acceptable and common these days. Just as much so as any other form of rudeness. There. I extracted the *relevant* bits of your message, rather than making readers (a) bounce around, visually if they're lucky to have a large enough window, via some kind of scrolling mechanism if not, and (b) try to guess which part, if any, I'm responding to in what I write. Perhaps politeness and thinking of your readers is not part of your culture. In that case, well, don't go away mad, just go away; I'll keep my old-fart politeness, thankyewverymuch. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
