> > On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 08:20 +0900, nomnex wrote: > > > Many people do not read quotes in the messages > > > by the simple fact they are so accustomed > > > to top posting answers (in the Outlook way). > > > > bg: > > > > Mild correction, sir - top posting is not "The Outlook Way". > > Outlook will accommodate proper bottom posting just as readily > > as any other email client software. > > > > Top-posting, properly assigned its "way" description, would > > be best described as "Clueless Newbie Way" :-) > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Brewster
Bill Kenworthy wrote: > Or perhaps top posting should be described "the way most of the world > does it despite being constantly chivvied by old timers on the internet > that bottom posting is the only way." - that tells me something :) bg: It apparently doesn't tell you that classic life lesson I learned when I was teenage - just because 80% of the world does something a certain way, that does not mean it is the right way to do it. All this tells us is that, when it comes to even minimal Net standards aimed at making communications more readable for all (a strong value in the early days) 80% of the users of the net are, on the evidence, indeed Clueless Newbies. BillK: > Live and let live and get on with your life, be tollerant. bg: I'm afraid I have a spot of difficulty feeling tolerant towards care-less practices which make my internet use more difficult. BillK: > Actually, a far far greater sin is not trimming messages - bg: True, but........ Actually that is the invariable handmaiden of the top-posting attitude, and the top-posting process itself. And a classical manifestation of the Clueless Newbie condition, wherein the sufferer doesn't know their email reply editor function well enough to be *able* to trim the backquotes. There is a good and very understandable technical reason for the cursor positioning having led so many people astray, which I have already beaten to death on this forum and others. Once you recognize the default positioning of the cursor when having entered "REPLY" mode in most email software, if you think through the process, it is easy to understand why generations of email users, almost certainly tragically mentorless, could have made exactly the reverse of the logical decision which is presented by that placement. Tolerance? No. Contempt is more like it. BillK: > And I am bottom posting because thats the way it was already organised. > > :) > BillK bg: And not so incidentally because on most lists of this sort you will eventually be asked specifically to refrain from top-posting if you do it often enough. Just ask yourself - would you prefer to have read this exchange in backwards chronological sequence? If so, why? We don't live our lives that way (at least most of us don't<g>). Cordially, Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
