snip
If you had not top posted, and properly trimmed the message like you should,
you would have noticed that you were replying to the wrong email.
-Jeremy
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Hey, I understand that top-posting or not-posting is really import to
some people but to go so far as to say it's harmful is
At 10:17 AM 12/18/2005, you wrote:
Actually, the is harmful phrase, if anything, refers to Edsger W.
Dijkstra's famous paper in 1968 titled Go To Statement Considered
Harmful. Tom's article about csh came many decades later. I guess
it makes me really old, to have read the Dijkstra paper, but
Comone people. I'm tired of seeing people interrupt threads with
self-righteous rants about how poor in taste 'top-posting' is to them.
We can all read, top, or bottom. Bandwidth is cheap. Nobody is forcing
you to read.
I'm also tired of people whining about other ridiculous things, such
as the
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 01:50:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comone people. I'm tired of seeing people interrupt threads with
self-righteous rants about how poor in taste 'top-posting' is to them.
{SNIP}
I think the phrase get a life applies. :-)
{SNIP}
Cheers,
mark
Actually,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Comone people. I'm tired of seeing people interrupt threads with
self-righteous rants about how poor in taste 'top-posting' is to them.
I dislike huge sigs. Especially ones that try to be as cute as they are
pointless. Yours is particularly offensive as it is both.
On Sunday 18 December 2005 11:12 am, Joe Polk wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, it doesn't matter what opinions anyone may have, it *is* against
the rules.
Agreed. Not because it's harmful, but because they do not want it on
this list.
it clearly is harmful. the mistaken email
On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jeremy Kitchen wrote:
it clearly is harmful. the mistaken email (which, I have decreed,
would have been avoided had the user not top-posted) spent
approximately 25MB of the list server's bandwidth (assuming there
are about 5k subscribers to the list)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 12:08:14AM +, Stephen Gran wrote:
I'm glad you have your opinion. The opinions of those who admin the
list happen to coincide with mine, and we both disagree with you. You
don't mind if we don't give out free support when you deliberately
Original Message
From: Jeremy Kitchen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ClamAV users ML clamav-users@lists.clamav.net
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 5:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] [OT] Top posting is harmful. (Was: Clamd
Problem.)
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