Excerpts from Ng Oon-Ee's message of Wed Jan 20 13:08:19 +0100 2010:
> On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 04:43 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:12:31PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > > Probably because (in my experience at least) top-posting occurs much
> > > more frequently than "me too"
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Marti Raudsepp wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Steve Holmes
> wrote:
>> Actually when you think about it, most blogs are all in reverse
>> chronical order which to me is the same thing as top-posting and
>> nobody seems to complain about that concept.
>
2010/1/20 Johannes Held :
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> Steve Holmes :
>> If I addopt bottom posting, I plan then to delete all but the most recent
>> post to keep thing conscise.
> Sure! That's the right(tm) way to do it. ;-)
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>> Actually I'm run into *MANY* of these huge
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Steve Holmes :
> If I addopt bottom posting, I plan then to delete all but the most recent
> post to keep thing conscise.
Sure! That's the right(tm) way to do it. ;-)
> Actually I'm run into *MANY* of these huge long threads in a single
> message to h
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
> Actually when you think about it, most blogs are all in reverse
> chronical order which to me is the same thing as top-posting and
> nobody seems to complain about that concept.
Separate blog posts are typically unrelated, so there is no reas
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 04:43 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:12:31PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> > Probably because (in my experience at least) top-posting occurs much
> > more frequently than "me too" posts at least, probably more frequently
> > than improper quoting as well.
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 05:12:31PM +0800, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> Probably because (in my experience at least) top-posting occurs much
> more frequently than "me too" posts at least, probably more frequently
> than improper quoting as well.
And yet wh
On Sat, 2010-01-16 at 09:31 +0100, Arvid Picciani wrote:
> Not sure why some people are so nazi on top posting when improper
> quoting and "me too" posts are the actual problem.
Probably because (in my experience at least) top-posting occurs much
more frequently than "me too" posts at least, prob
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:33:20 -0700, Steve Holmes
wrote:
> If bottom-posting is so passionately desirable, then may I suggest
> people trim down the history of a thread.
One is supposed to add their answer to the bottom of
the _quote_ not the mail. People who do otherwise are indeed
worse then
On Jan 11, 2010 at 09:27 PM, Loui Chang wrote:
> I also find mutt's 'T' helps. It hides the quoted text.
OMG how did I NOT know that! You sir, deserve a cookie.
That just made mutt so much more enjoyable on my netbook.
Obligatory:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
(sorry if you've seen this too many times already)
Regards,
Marti
On 12-01-10 19:32, Aaron Griffin wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders wrote:
On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
[top posting& trimming ]
I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top postin
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:17 PM, ludovic coues wrote:
> 2010/1/12 Aaron Griffin
>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders
>> wrote:
>> > On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
>> >
>> > [top posting & trimming ]
>> >
>> >> I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmai
2010/1/12 Aaron Griffin
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders
> wrote:
> > On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
> >
> > [top posting & trimming ]
> >
> >> I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
> >> webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with
At Dienstag, 12. Januar 2010 06:27 Loui Chang wrote:
> I also find mutt's 'T' helps. It hides the quoted text.
Very nice feature. Does anyone knows if this is possible in knode too?
See you, Attila
On Tue 12 Jan 2010 19:28 +0100, Guus Snijders wrote:
> On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
> >I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
> >webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting
> >replies and sending HTML emails. I have requested that they ch
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders wrote:
> On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
>
> [top posting & trimming ]
>
>> I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
>> webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting
>> replies and sending HTML em
On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
[top posting & trimming ]
I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting
replies and sending HTML emails. I have requested that they change the
defaults, but haven't got
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:08:37AM +0100, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
> By the way, how do you search in the archives of the archlinux ML ?
> especially on several months ?
With Mutt's limit command.
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What's the def
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Simon Boulay wrote:
>>
>> google e.g. to search for "foobar" in arch-dev-public:
>>
>> foobar site:http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/
>>
>> (42 hits!)
>
> There is also gmane.org:
> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.devel
> http://news.gm
On 01/12/2010 11:13 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 12:48 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit :
[...] and its
really tough to go through archives (for example, when googling about an
issue) when there's top-posting involved. That's actually my primary
reason for b
solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 12:48 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit :
[...] and its
really tough to go through archives (for example, when googling about an
issue) when there's top-posting involved. That's actually my primary
reason for bottom-posting.
By the way, how do you sea
Le mardi 12 janvier 2010 à 12:48 +0800, Ng Oon-Ee a écrit :
> [...] and its
> really tough to go through archives (for example, when googling about an
> issue) when there's top-posting involved. That's actually my primary
> reason for bottom-posting.
>
By the way, how do you search in the archive
On Mon 11 Jan 2010 21:33 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> re-read the old stuff over and over again. Nothing annoys me more
> than haveing to page through five generations of past messages in a
> single thread to get all the way to the bottom just to have a single
> line of text say something like "Th
On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 21:33 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> If bottom-posting is so passionately desirable, then may I suggest
> people trim down the history of a thread to the most recent 1 or 2
> generations back. Or maybe even better, just reply with no quoting
> and and briefly summarize the quo
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I've been seeing some very passionate pleeds in posts lately
concerning top-posting of replies. I, for one, don't really mind
seeing top-posted e-mails like that because I can see the reply
quickly and if the thread is current in my mind, I don't
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