On 20/08/09 21:00, Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado wrote:
>
> Saluton Wayne :)
>
> Wayne<b...@gmail.com> dixit:
>> Why people hates bottom post?
>
> First of all, you topposted after being warned about list guidelines.
> Please DON'T TOP POST ON THIS LIST. See the list guidelines, again:
>>> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/web/vim-information
>
> Second, it's not a matter of hate: http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>
He didn't ask why people (old Usenet hands) hate top-posting, but why
people [newbies I suppose] hates [sic] bottom post [sic]. ("sic" because
I would have asked "why people hate bottom posting" or maybe "why people
hate to bottom-post": "people" is a plural except when "a people" is
used as an approximate synonym of "a nation".)
The reason most newbies use top-posting is, I believe, that the
braindead software they use makes top-posting easier. I'm not saying
that it _enforces_ top-posting, and, indeed, in most cases, when
composing a reply you can move your edit cursor to below the part to
which you want to reply, after removing irrelevant quoted text.
One possible exception has been said to be some "Internet phone" servers
where the quoted text is added in front of the message by the server
_after_ you send the reply, where the quoted text is not included. If
such servers exist, IMO they are worse than braindead.
Best regards,
Tony.
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