Wow, that was filled with a direct attack - and no reason as to *WHY* the convention exists, and why you believe it's 'more right' than top posting. I'm sorry, but your last e-mail just makes it seem that you're narrow minded and quick to judge. I don't know how/why you correlate bottom-posting with experience level. Tsk tsk :o) Oh, and, why do you think top posting looks unprofessional? I'm not entirely sure, but directly insulting people seems a bit more 'unprofessional' than top posting, if you see what I'm saying.
PS: 7 years of Linux experience makes me a newbie. Ya'll must be grand masters. On 6/23/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Levi Smith wrote: > YES! I give at least a 100% agreement with your entire statement. Glad to > hear I'm not the only one with these viewpoints! The whole thing is silly > On 6/23/06, Nicholas Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I've been using Linux for over seven years and, until this list, I've >> never >> heard anyone complaining about top-posting vs bottom-posting. I think it's >> silly to think one way is right -- regardless of your preference of >> I have been on a lot of unix and internet related mailing lists for a number of years now and they always bottom post. Bugtraq, nanog, linux-kernel, you name it. You can look at the archives of these lists right now and see the bottom posting. What has happened in the above case is that two newbies who were not aware of net convention saw each other top posting and agreed with each other. Big surprise. You can usually tell how long a person has been on the net (and therefore their experience level) by whether they top post or bottom post. Among other things top posting just looks unprofessional. -- Tracy R Reed http://ultraviolet.org A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
-- Nicholas Wheeler Systems Administrator Development InfoStructure -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
