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Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: Top Posting/ Bottom PostingRe: Top Posting/ Bottom Posting
From: WJCarpenter <bill-rockbox_at_carpenter.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:59:56 -0700 > I am often wondering why people are top-posting at all. They have to be annoyed by this kind of replies too when they read them. But it seems they don't even notice the difference. Heh. I've been doing mailing list stuff for a long, long time; literally, decades. I've seen probably a couple of dozen mailing lists have this pointless discussion about top-vs-bottom posting (and the other perennial favorite, HTML vs plain text). My conclusion after all this time is that that sort of whining is not much different from whining about where people put their braces in source code. If you are one of those whiners, I'm sure you have in your own mind a solid rationale for one way or the other (likewise for the source code braces argument). Mainly, though, you are complaining that people are doing something different from what you do, whether or not it's spelled out in some arbitrary list posting guidelines. No matter what your rationale (and I've read a bunch of them looking for something compelling), it actually makes very little practical difference in your understanding of the content of messages. Sure, there are some messages that are a jumbled mess, but that's pretty much independent of top-vs-bottom. Spend your time complaining about those messages (or ignore them). If you're complaining about top-vs-bottom posting, per se, you are just being intolerant. Stop wasting everybody's time with it. Seriously. I used to be one of you, but I got better. (Just don't let me putting your braces in the wrong place. On that one I'm sure I'm right. :-) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rockbox FAQ: http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/GeneralFAQ Etiquette: http://www.rockbox.org/mail/etiquette.html Received on 2009-06-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |