Re: [gentoo-user] Eterm not emerging

[Dale]

Personally, If I think I'm helping someone, I don't care if they top or bottom post or post like you did below, middle posting I guess.  I certainly won't care if someone is helping me. The one thing that confuses me is keeping up with who is who.  I'm awful at names.  I have to work at it to get my girlfriends name right.  I actually have it plastered on my monitor to remind me.  Just to be safe, I call her Sweety.  Don't get me wrong though, I love her dearly but I suck at names.  I'm good at remembering faces though.  I may not know their name but I know I know them.  Confusing huh? If someone wants me to reply on the bottom, say so, I'll scroll down and type away.  I'm not sweating this at all.  I find it sort of funny really.  All this over where to type.  LOL, for those text users.  :-D  for those HTML users. Dale ROTFLMAO!!! Ryan Viljoen wrote: On 10/30/05, Qian Qiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, i top post, just for you, :) You can post how you like. Please dont change your ways on my accord. Imagine someone who wasn't following the thread need to do to pick up this thread: 1. Scroll all the way to the bottom, read Ted's message. 2. Scroll a bit upwards, to read you message 3. Then scroll all the way to the top, to read mine. I can hardly say it is *logical* to read a thread backwards. Another example: try to name one forum/BBS system that displays the newest reply on the top when viewing a thread. BTW, how did you like my HTML? I bet you enjoyed it. Um did you not read my previous message? Obviously not, mate... I agree with you on the HTML, gmail enabled it by default. I disabled it after you pointed it out, so thank you. You just don't understand that most people dislike top-posting and HTML messages for a reason. You've got every right to use whatever you wish in your personal mails, but this is a public list, try to be considerate mate. Quite honestly top, middle or bottom posting all seems indifferent to me. Correct me if I am wrong here but I thought the information was the important part of the message not whether it is located at the top or at the bottom? Hmmm guess I was wrong, I now be more considerate and concern myself with the layout of my messages rather then helping people. In the interests of keeping you happy and god forbid all other people who are more concerned with layout happy I will cease my evil ways of top posting. Rav -- "When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free". - Linus Torvalds, 1995