|
Rockbox mail archiveSubject: Re: apologyRe: apology
From: Antony Stone <Antony.Stone_at_rockbox.open.source.it>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:30:32 +0100 On Monday 22 June 2009 17:33, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > 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. They don't have to be annoyed by it: 1. Some people appear to prefer top-posting, on the basis that they can just start reading the latest comment in a discussion, without having to read through something they've seen before. I strongly suspect these people either don't use, don't understand, or use a mail client which doesn't clearly show, the "quoted text" markers which are (as far as I know) most commonly represented by either '>' symbols at the left end of each line of the quoted text, or a solid line down the left of the quoted text, and thereby allow one to quickly skip quoted text if desired. 2. Some people, I am sure, neither notice nor care about the difference between top-posting, bottom-posting, and inline posting. I would expect these mainly to be the people who do not trim quoted text, whether they are top-posting or bottom-posting their reply. For me, this style is like proofreading a several-hundred or -thousand word article, and listing all the spelling mistakes and grammatical errors on a single sheet of paper, without referring to where they occur in the text. The information is conveyed, but in a very unhelpful, difficult to process, and inefficient manner. 3. Some people clearly don't even know what the terms "top-posting", "bottom-posting", "trimming quoted text" etc mean, why it might matter, or why the subject gets discussed so much. For those people I would please ask you to take a look at one or more of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html http://www.html-faq.com/etiquette/?toppost Regards, Antony. -- Programming is a Dark Art, and it will always be. The programmer is fighting against the two most destructive forces in the universe: entropy and human stupidity. They're not things you can always overcome with a "methodology" or on a schedule. - Damian Conway, Perl God Please reply to the list; please don't CC me. ------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.htmlReceived on 2009-06-22 Page template was last modified "Tue Sep 7 00:00:02 2021" The Rockbox Crew -- Privacy Policy |