<quote name="Levi Pearson" date="Fri, 17 Sep 2010 at 02:48 -0600"> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Almost without > > exception when someone in the management hierarchy replies to my email > > with top-posting it signifies that he or she did not read anything I > > wrote and is just replying to what he or she thought I said. It's very > > frustrating because it represents simple laziness on the other person's > > part. If he's too lazy to read what I actually wrote, what else is he > > lazy in? Are my ideas even mattering to him and my company? I bet that > > many of you can say similar things about so-called professional e-mails > > at your companies too. > > This reminds me of how computer-techie types tend to look down on > people who aren't terribly interested in acquiring the same skill set. > Look at the derision poured upon the CS professor's head behind his > back when they learn he doesn't even know how to install Linux on his > PC and can't get his laptop to talk to the projector! Never even > heard of the GPL, and made his webpage with Microsoft Word. Must be a > total dumbass. Nevermind that he published a ground-breaking paper in > the field of complexity theory. He's just an egghead with no > tech-cred and probably top-posts as well because that's what everyone > else does, and he couldn't care less about what a bunch of old-school > unix weenies think about how email should be used.
Yeah, backstabbing is never good. Also, this reminds me of how moral relativist types look down their noses at anyone with a concrete opinion about anything. > Grow up, guys. There's a world outside of unixoid operating systems, > system administration, and internet tradition. Not everyone cares This list is ABOUT unixoid operating systems, so I think you're the one out of place. > about what you care about. Nobody has to conform to how you think > they should communicate with you. Whining about it just makes you > look petty and ridiculously anal. Sure, you've got good reasons for > why you do things the way you do, but they're *your* reasons, not > universal ones, or they would actually *be* universal rather than > adopted by only a tiny minority. At least you have the sense to degrade us to our faces. ;) Von Fugal -- Government is a disease that masquerades as its own cure -- Robert Lefevre
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