bs -----Original Message----- From: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nate Duehr Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 5:07 PM To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Re: Request
Eric Lemmon wrote: > Perhaps it's better to set your mail program to put your reply at the > top, with all posts following in descending order. That is the Outlook > default setting, and it works for me! backwards. and way that read to harder It's Bah. Uncivilized... It's called top-posting, and it's always been silly, ever since Outlook started it. Virtually no one did it, until Outlook brought it's special brain-dead e-mail implementation to the world. People don't read English bottom to top, they read top to bottom. Prior to Outlook, the people online tended to type full sentences and knew how to use their computers pretty well. If someone can't figure out how to SNIP the original message down to ONLY the parts they're replying to, they probably shouldn't be left unattended in public or allowed to play with sharp objects. Better yet, perhaps quoting the reply at all, is really the silly part. A left over from when switching messages on a BBS to read the previous would take a lot of time. Nowadays, just follow the thread backward for context, maybe? "When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my Dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as that of sentences. The author may arrange the gems effectively, but their fhape and luftre have been given by the attrition of ages. Bring me the fineft fimile from the whole range of imaginative writing, and I will fhow you a fingle word which conveys a more profound, a more accurate, and a more eloquent analogy." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. I'm sure someone will think I'm too "judgmental" for expecting someone to at least TRY to learn how to use their computer, instead of butchering the English language with it. And I'm off-topic, so I'll shut up now. Just a pet peeve. Top-posting is an annoying affliction of the computer age, to chop up our thoughts and words into useless backwards snippets. (Want a better rant with good references? See what I think of PowerPoint for meetings: http://www.natetech.com/?p=248 The Gettysburg Address parody sums that one up real well... (the link is there above in the article). It definitely loses it's grandeur and beauty as a speech that saved a country -- when done via PowerPoint slides! Lovers of the language (even those of us who butcher it as I do), will always bottom-post. Nate WY0X ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links __________ NOD32 3432 (20080910) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com
