As someone from Bryan's generation, maybe a but older even, my first emails were over UUCP and email threads most certainly were a thing for a long time. That was indeed how virtual conversations were held when nothing else existed. Top-posting versus inline was always one of those debates that people I only knew from afar had with each other. Personally, if needed, I would do inline to answer/rebut various points as they appeared. But after a while I attained an attitude of not caring, To each their own, YMMV and all that.
Also, as one of the co-founders of LPI, I am and have always been very sensitive to the role of certification in the realms of open source and of tech in general. Before us the well had been long-poisoned by the Novell / Microsoft / CompTIA model of IT certification as a tool of vendor lock-in or at very least a loss-leader designed to sell official training. LPI from day one took pains to to separate ourselves from that ethos, I will leave it to the reader to evaluate if, 20 years in hindsight, we succeeded. I´d come across more than my share of people saying "I would NEVER work for any place that required certification", and, well, I had no answer for them. What we try to do here IMO is help people demonstrate their skills to others who don't know what those skills are, while enabling HR talent seekers to outsource their technical evaluations. I don't think we've ever conveyed certification as being more than that, though recent initiatives such as LPI membership and a voluntary code of conduct have tried to go beyond the merely technical components of the program. Meanwhile, when pondering the topic my memory always comes back to this: (from https://dilbert.com/strip/2000-08-31) Cheers, - Evan
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