[wellylug] "The quart-annual top-posting debate" was: Setting up a simple web server
Pete Black
pete at marchingcubes.com
Tue Aug 9 21:38:37 NZST 2005
You have to wonder, if top-posting is such a bad thing, why most mail
clients default to putting the cursor at the top of the reply when
replying to emails.
Perhaps if it bothers you enough, you post-order zealots should submit
patches to evolution, thunderbird, mutt and probably emacs too to send
the cursor to the bottom of the post when replying to mail.
I'm actually half-serious about this, since if it took more effort to
top-post, I doubt hopelessy lazy a**holes like me would ever do it.
-Pete
>On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 20:31, Mark Foster wrote:
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>>>If the first visitor pissed on the curtains in the
>>>lounge, follow his example :)
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>>I think you realise exactly how inappropriate that metaphor
>>is.
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>But you must admit that it was funny! :)
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>>I can think of far worse things than top-posting. And I have
>>to admitt some peoples attitudes toward it are a little
>>overzealous for my tastes.
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>"Maeden agan" as protagoras truthfully said. An this is
>more so true for the less virtuous and less laborious
>habit of top-posting ;)
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>>I'm not saying bottom posting isnt preferred, just that in
>>some instances top-posting is actually not that bad, and
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>Well, I'm one of those who can't stand it, and if it's
>just because it's a bad habit. Basically it boils down
>to the fact that one doesn't want to waste a thought
>or any effort on the possibility that the correspondence
>may turn into a thread, an ongoing communication.
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>I admit that it someone adds a one-liner to a one-liner
>it may appear acceptable - but in the light of forming
>a bad habit it's still not a good thing to do.
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>>certainly if you're replying to a top-posted thread you should
>>retain the standard, so that the thread is actually
>>followable. (If from the bottom up instead of from the top
>>down!)
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>I dare to argue that :) ... if something like this thread for
>example were presented in top-poster fashion you'd have a
>hard time to figure out which of my statemens refer to which
>of yours. If a third or fourth opinion were prepended it
>would become hopeless... the thing with the top-poster is
>that he will always put his entire response at the top, never
>refer to individual items. It's easier. For him, not for the
>flow of a conversation.
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>>Sigh.
>>Mark. ;)
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>TTFN,
>I need my strength for the working day tomorrow ;)
>Andrej
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