Am 08.11.2014 um 14:38 schrieb Charles Lepple:
On Nov 7, 2014, at 11:47 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt <[email protected]> wrote:
Now I suppose your going to respond with that immature drivel that's been
floating around, lets see if I remember it:
Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> Top-posting.
>>> What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
We all must make sure our postings are formatted so your circa 1982 /bin/mail command
can still read it <eyeroll>
Guys...
Ted,
As someone who spends a lot of time digging through the NUT mailing list
archives, trying to find the context for previous list discussions, this is
actually not such a ridiculous request. I know, we could solve this by moving
to some mailing list software that folds previous replies like current mail
readers do. But it's a lot of work for not much gain.
That wasn't a "request", it was a "should" *suggestion* passing what I was
honoured to learn from kernel mailing lists maintainers Years before.
While the text formatting hasn't evolved much since Usenet, I would hope the
people have evolved during that same timeframe. You seem to have a lot of UPS
experience, and it's a shame that we can't put it to a more constructive use.
I'm still open to the doc/FAQ improvements we discussed in July.
I WOULD second that, too. And I've not yet got why Ted reacts on me like I had
dropped an UPS on his cat.
I'll give it another try.
y
tom
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