Everyone replies with what works naturally for them and assumes that my world is the same.
So, is the idea that all of should live in the one true silo, so long as it is not Microsoft. I have tools I am happy and effective with, and then I'm insulted for it. Why would I want to continue keeping such company and suffering the opportunity cost of these raggings? Are there not more important shared interests than this? Is this what mentoring amounts to? - Dennis Tick, tick, tick ... -----Original Message----- From: Ian Lynch [mailto:ianrly...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 05:39 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: Top posting is bad From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 01:47 To:�ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Top posting is bad At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please stop doing it? � <snip> � -- Ross Gardler (@rgardler) Programme Leader (Open Development) OpenDirective�http://opendirective.com <http://opendirective.com/> On 30 September 2011 13:18, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: The assumption behind this recommendation seems to be that all mail clients are the same and the list is read the same by everyone. �I already *manually* truncate lines to match the line-width of the sender. Hi Dennis, I'm on Gmail and it is quite easy to top post accidentally :-). Gmail hides a lot of the quoted text anyway unless you want to see it.� On the other hand I think having a convention we all try to stick to is a good idea simply because it provides consistency and predictability. I'd hate to think that this was something that would get to such a point you would leave given the amount of hard graft you put in. It's not that important. �Surely it isn't too difficult, though, to post sequentially. Took me all of 5 seconds to rearrange the order of your post in reply to Ross in this mail and chop out most of the text :-). Really this whole issue gets blown out of proportion, but I'd say if it's not a big imposition let's just go with the flow.� -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org�+44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
