Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 20090323010320.gb7...@gecko.davescrunch.org, Dave Patterson wrote: * Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com [2009-03-22 16:24:52 -0500]: I remember the days before 1994 and the Great AOL Floodgates opening... A 286 accelerator card in an 8086 IBM with a 20 Mg hard drive and 5 1/4

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:51:31PM EDT, Florian Kulzer wrote: [..] I need to see the relevant context quoted (properly trimmed as the discussion progresses, of course), especially if a thread has run for a while. Most business mail runs something like this: - hey, Dee.. got my fax?

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 07:56:35AM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: 2009/3/23 Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.b...@gmail.com: [snip] I bottom-post out of force of habit, however, it's archaic and generally unnecessary. -- Chris Now imagine you are CC'd in on the conversation with no

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:27:13PM -0400, Jesus Arocho wrote: Hee, Hee; are you trying to humiliate people into using bottom posting by associating them with use of Windows? The debate of top/bottom posting is much alike elbows on/off the table, burp/not burp after a meal, etc, true

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-22 19:52, Dave Patterson wrote: * Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: Are you now, or have you ever been, a top poster? You must have missed

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Dave Patterson
* Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net [2009-03-22 21:20:30 -0500]: You must have missed the Editor Wars... Why do we have to hide from the police, Daddy? Because we use vi, son. They use emacs. Escape Meta Alt Control Shift Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping EMACS Makes Any

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 22, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-22 19:52, Dave Patterson wrote: * Ron Johnson ron.l.john...@cox.net [2009-03-22 16:06:06 -0500]: Except that Our arguments are Right, and Theirs are Eeeevil. Here we go. I can imagine the hearings now: Are you now, or have you

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-22 Thread Dave Patterson
* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net [2009-03-22 20:34:50 -0500]: That's hyperbole, at the very least. The original Pentium was released on March 22, 1993. 3 1/2 disks had been available for a while. While the first GB disk wouldn't be seen until 1995, 100MB drives were

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 15 Mar 2009 00:32:20 +0100 mouss mo...@ml.netoyen.net wrote: ... now, when I respond to specific points in the quoted message, I bottom post. unfortunately, many people are not used to this, and find it hard to continue the discussion consistently: they often don't understand levels

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-14 Thread mouss
Sander Marechal a écrit : [snip] Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top posting every reply carries the entire thread

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-14 Thread mouss
Comments inline ;-p Daniel Burrows a écrit : My experience has also been that attempting to bottom-post in a corporate environment confuses people because they can't find your reply. When people know the conventions, bottom-posting is a lot clearer, but if it just confuses them, there's

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-13 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com wrote: From: Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com Subject: Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 12:55 PM On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 00:12:15 -0500, Kumar Appaiah (a.ku

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-13 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Fri, 3/13/09, Angus Auld aonghas_a...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Angus Auld aonghas_a...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, March 13, 2009, 10:55 AM --- On Thu, 3/12/09, Bob Cox debian-u...@lists.bobcox.com

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Sander Marechal
Alex Samad wrote: isn't that a reason for top posting? No, because with bottom posting you can quote just a little bit of an e-mail and put your response directly below it. This is a big boon with larger e-mails because you can respond to multiple statements or questions in turn. Of course

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Cox
has had its readability irrevocably destroyed by a top-poster. On top of this, our top-posting friend wrote in HTML, tripling the size of his worthless contribution and to cap it all, cc'd the list and replied directly to the previous contributor in the thread (not the OP, who just might have

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Ken Teague
Daniel Burrows wrote: My experience has also been that attempting to bottom-post in a corporate environment confuses people because they can't find your reply. That's when the sender needs to trim out what doesn't need to be there. It's not necessary to quote the entire previous e-mail.

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-12 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:00:28AM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Alex Samad wrote: isn't that a reason for top posting? No, because with bottom posting you can quote just a little bit of an e-mail and put your response directly below it. This is a big boon with larger e-mails because you

Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Steven Demetrius
For all you posters discussing Top posting vs Bottom posting and taking other threads off topic here is a thread for you. First my opinion, Since this mailing list historically has been Bottom posting then we stick with it. Using both top and bottom posting in the mailing list will lead

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread randall
Steven Demetrius wrote: For all you posters discussing Top posting vs Bottom posting and taking other threads off topic here is a thread for you. First my opinion, Since this mailing list historically has been Bottom posting then we stick with it. good point. personally the most e-mails i

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 07:23, randall rand...@songshu.org wrote: personally the most e-mails i receive and sent are in a corporate environment and everybody uses top posting there, i clearly see it has benefits since it is used more as a notification to have the latest one (and probably most

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Sander Marechal
Nuno Magalhães wrote: I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There Not really. is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Daniel Burrows
. When people know the conventions, bottom-posting is a lot clearer, but if it just confuses them, there's not much point. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
Sander Marechal wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: I think most people top post in corporate enviroments 'cos they just click and type and don't really care about proper use of email or computers in general. It's just the thing to send messages. Actually, top posting makes some sense

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Jens Van Broeckhoven
posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top posting every reply carries the entire thread. Want to involve someone else (like your boss)? Just CC

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Bryan Bishop
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Steven Demetrius wrote: For all you posters discussing Top posting vs Bottom posting and taking other threads off topic here is a thread for you. On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Stephen D. Barnes wrote: Alan B. Pearce wrote: On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:56 AM

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote: Nuno Magalhães wrote: [snip] For a real mailinglist (such as this) there is no such benefit when top posting. Everyone already has all the previous messages because they are subscribed here, and in the rare case you want

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Nuno Magalhães
isn't that a reason for top posting, if you have already read the previous emails, don't you want to just get to the new information with out having to read the stuff you just read in the previous email ? Well if the bottom-poster just leaves the cited text without any sort of cleaning, i.e

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Ken Teague
Sander Marechal wrote: Actually, top posting makes some sense in a corporate environment. There is no mailinglist or archive to see the entire discussion there. Suppose you are discussing something with a coworker over e-mail. With top posting every reply carries the entire thread. Want

Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting

2009-03-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 10:04:29PM -0700, Ken Teague wrote: There's nothing more painful when reading e-mail than to start from the very bottom, read the message, then begin to read each reply upwards. It becomes really bad when some replies are more than a page long because you now have

Re: top-posting

2009-03-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Dotan Cohen wrote: Why did you think that I killfiled you there? I remember getting in the crossfire between you and someone else a few months ago, but I don't remember there ever being a problem between us. Well, shoot, I know someone did and thought it was you. Was for something rather

Re: top-posting

2009-03-08 Thread Dotan Cohen
Just like I had seen only your post, and not Steve's. Know that that is likely to happen before you decide to be violent or troll. The irony here is that the reason this is so is because Dotan's got me killfilled for my messages over on KU-U, a forum on which I am far, far, more

Re: top-posting

2009-03-08 Thread Alex Samad
postal. I feel powerful. If being the sort of irritating sad little tit you apparently are makes you feel powerful, go for it. As Wendall said Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone but you obviously have nothing else in your life to offer the same sort of high

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Jan Ingvoldstad
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 8:32 AM, karun ka...@mail.karund.de wrote: Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Well, Google with Gmail certainly aren't helping. I also thoroughly loathe answers in the form my

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread CaT
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 08:32:27AM +0100, karun wrote: Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Actually, I'd say it was a side-effect of pine in the unix world and any graphical client everywhere else

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
karun wrote: Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming the standard for non Opensource computer software users. Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ Also the base Outlook

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:01:34PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: There is a big world out there beyond the confines of the Debian lists. There is a lot of top posting out there. It must be easy for twits to come to believe that top posting is always, and everywhere, OK. And that people who

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 02:18:47AM -0500, Daryl Styrk wrote: I myself don't care for top posting. It just tosses a wrench in a nicely flowing thread. I have started playing around with mutt the last week or so, and I now appreciate how netiquette has come to be. Specifically to mailing

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Top-posting works great in places where you have a common archive and thus don't have to carry the full context in your message. Er, what? Top-posting requires you to carry the *full* context of the entire thread in every message! -- Steve C. Lamb

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:24:05AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ If I understand this well enough, quotefix won’t work if you are using Word as an editor for mails

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Sjors Gielen
Stephan Seitz schreef: On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 12:24:05AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Outlook as an excuse for top-posting went out the window circa 2002. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ If I understand this well enough, quotefix won’t work if you are using Word

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/3/7 Wendell Cochran atr...@eskimo.com: Date: Fri Mar  6 11:06:29 2009 From: Joe McDonagh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Joe McDonagh
are for. http://what-is-what.com/what_is/top_posting.html Top-posting doesn't bother me and I actually find it easier to follow, possibly because I used to work in support. Top-posting to unix geeks is the equivalent of killing a small child's puppy. I never understood the rage that top-posting

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
Top-posting doesn't bother me and I actually find it easier to follow, possibly because I used to work in support. Top-posting to unix geeks is the equivalent of killing a small child's puppy. I never understood the rage that top-posting produces, and seriously, top posters should be shot

Re: top-posting

2009-03-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, there are those who over react. And no, I didn't killfile you! [ snippage ] Just like I had seen only your post, and not Steve's. Know that that is likely to happen before you decide to be violent or troll. The irony here is that the reason this is so is because

top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Wendell Cochran
Date: Fri Mar  6 11:06:29 2009 From: Joe McDonagh To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone -- not only Steve Lamb. Wendell Cochran

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Terence
powerful, go for it. As Wendall said Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone but you obviously have nothing else in your life to offer the same sort of high. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
little tit you apparently are makes you feel powerful, go for it. As Wendall said Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone but you obviously have nothing else in your life to offer the same sort of high. There is a big world out there beyond the confines of the Debian lists. There is a lot

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Glenn English
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. If being the sort of irritating sad little tit you apparently are makes you feel powerful, go for it. As Wendall said Top-posting inconveniences

[OT] Re: top-posting and iTouch

2009-03-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 06:14:35PM -0700, Glenn English wrote: And it's next to impossible not to with the lame email client on this iTouch... It even top posts your signature? Wow, that's pretty bad. No one's bothered to port any good e-mail clients to the touch yet? --

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like being a child with 'special needs'. The rest of us should be grown up

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Daryl Styrk
I myself don't care for top posting. It just tosses a wrench in a nicely flowing thread. I have started playing around with mutt the last week or so, and I now appreciate how netiquette has come to be. Specifically to mailing lists. Top posting, HTML, 2-3 pages of quoted text to see Thanks

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Mar 6, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like being a child

Re: top-posting

2009-03-06 Thread karun
-posting inconveniences almost everyone -- not only Steve Lamb. Wendell Cochran West Seattle Top Posting is an unfortunate side effect, of Microsoft Outlook becoming the standard for non Opensource computer software users. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Why do I get a spam warning from my isp for posting a message to this list?

2008-08-08 Thread Aniruddha
Hi, i just received s spam warning from my isp for a message posted to this list and I wonder whats going on. Regards, Aniruddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do I get a spam warning from my isp for posting a message to this list?

2008-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:40:47 +0200 Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Aniruddha, i just received s spam warning from my isp for a message posted to this list and I wonder whats going on. It's difficult to be certain, but it's possibly because there's more quoted text than new material

Re: Why do I get a spam warning from my isp for posting a message to this list?

2008-08-08 Thread Aniruddha
On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 14:55 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:40:47 +0200 Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Aniruddha, i just received s spam warning from my isp for a message posted to this list and I wonder whats going on. It's difficult to be certain, but

Re: Why do I get a spam warning from my isp for posting a message to this list?

2008-08-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:39:08 +0200 Aniruddha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Aniruddha, Hi thanks for the answer :) I'm really puzzled about this. The message You're welcome. concerning was an original unquoted message. Anyhow I really hope it's You've sent several in the past couple of

Posting to list about a project completed w/ Debian software is OT or not?

2008-07-17 Thread Nick Lidakis
Is it too off topic to post about a project completed with Debian software? I don't have any specific problems with the solution I have put together, but thought I would share and would like some constructive criticism in regards to the way I integrated the software together. Figure I would

Re: Posting to list about a project completed w/ Debian software is OT or not?

2008-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/17/08 16:47, Nick Lidakis wrote: Is it too off topic to post about a project completed with Debian software? I don't have any specific problems with the solution I have put together, but thought I would share and would like some constructive

Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
Hey! I have just srated using mutt. :-) I am really loving it! Only thing that I would like to know how to change is, by default mutt top posts. I would like to configure mutt to bottom post by default when I reply to an email. I have googled for the naswer and only found instructions on how

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/11/08 20:46, Julian De Marchi wrote: Hey! I have just srated using mutt. :-) I am really loving it! Only thing that I would like to know how to change is, by default mutt top posts. I would like to configure mutt to bottom post by

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
command in nano? With Vim, its G But that's the answer of last resort... Why? You should be editing on the way to the bottom. Pure bottom-posting is as bad as pure-top-posting. If I had just bottom-posed, you would see Ron's signature lines, the debian-list signature line, and Ron telling

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 06:46:58 pm Julian De Marchi wrote: Only thing that I would like to know how to change is, by default mutt top posts. I would like to configure mutt to bottom post by default when I reply to an email. Mutt doesn't default to top posting, it defaults to putting

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread s. keeling
Julian De Marchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have just srated using mutt. :-) I am really loving it! Only thing that I would like to know how to change is, by default mutt top = posts. I would like to configure mutt to bottom post by default when I=20 reply to an email. I have googled for

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
You should be editing on the way to the bottom. Pure bottom-posting is as bad as pure-top-posting. If I had just bottom-posed, you would see Ron's signature lines, the debian-list signature line, and Ron telling you to turn on line wrapping. As it is, I left more than I probably should

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Julian De Marchi
Mutt doesn't default to top posting, it defaults to putting the cursor at the start of the message so you can read along as you go down, interspersing your reply and removing unnecessary text. This is not a bug: It is by design and is a feature. I am fully aware this is not a bug(flea

Re: Mutt and top posting

2008-03-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 March 2008 09:28:42 pm Julian De Marchi wrote: Mutt doesn't default to top posting, it defaults to putting the cursor at the start of the message so you can read along as you go down, interspersing your reply and removing unnecessary text. This is not a bug: It is by design

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:58:09AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval philosophy trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Two. No, seven! Arg. You made me lose count!

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-17 Thread Dotan Cohen
-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-17 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 05:59 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:58:09AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval philosophy trying to determine how many angels can dance on

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/17/08 12:46, Dotan Cohen wrote: On 17/01/2008, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 8:08 AM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ducks float, they must be made of wood

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of wood and therefore, she'll float, so she's a witch. The sad

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 17:37:16 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the whole movie. and apparently, one can recover from

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:02:07 +0100 (CET) s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, why don't your lines wrap at ca. 80 chars? Missed that lesson? Huh? I set Claws to wrap at 70. I thought it would do that automatically before sending the message... Fixed. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Ulrich Schweitzer
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:34:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I always hated that STOP AHEAD thing. I always figured if you are close enough to the words that it mattered which one you drove over first, you aren't looking far enough up the road. And if you are following too closely to read

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
that... The sad thing is that I work for them. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 16, 2008 12:42 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/15/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of wood and therefore, she'll float, so she's

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ...

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 12:42 AM, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/15/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread judd
On 15 Jan, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/15/08 19:24, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 01/15/08 17:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The problem, the oft-overlooked side comment made by one of the

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Robert Hodgins
Given that you're in the country that invented the witch-hunt, that's not much surprise. I wasn't aware that he was from Babylonia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Antiquity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:34:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I always hated that STOP AHEAD thing. I always figured if you are close enough to the words that it mattered which one you drove over first, you aren't

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:56:28AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:56:28AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Well, now you're just contradicting. I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean looking guys at my door. I figure it's either the Spanish Inquisition or the Business Software Alliance. (Is there much

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:07:41AM +0100, Dan H wrote: Again: There is NO NEED to scroll through redundant stuff! You need to EDIT the irrelevant stuff away! What's so hard to understand about this? Do you notice that this posting, although it is deep in an ongoing thread, covers barely

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:29:49PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:17:42PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:00:28PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/08 19:24, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 01/15/08 17:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The problem, the oft-overlooked side comment made by one of the

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Well, now you're just contradicting. I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean looking guys at my door. I figure it's either the Spanish Inquisition

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Well, now you're just contradicting. I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Celejar
further down, re reading the same information I have read in the previous email. Then the people posting are not trimming their posts as they should. or taken to the extreme, why not remove all the original post! Extremism is the hallmark of the non-thinker. Extremes are alone logical

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 16, 2008 8:08 AM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of wood and therefore, she'll float, so she's

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread David
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 8:08 AM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of wood and therefore, she'll

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:46:38 +1300 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Its also to recommended to set the line wrap variable in your editor to about 72 or so. I don't know how to set that in Slypheed Claws. Configuration / Preferences / Compose / Wrapping Chris. Celejar --

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