Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-20 Thread J4
Top-posting = bad and goes against the way you read Oh here we go... Time to add my 2 cents worth. I always top post. There is nothing wrong with it and there is nothing wrong with bottom posting. Its a preference. I have no idea where the top=bad and bottom=good came from. This was

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-20 Thread Ken Warner
I agree with you completely. It's amazing to me that anyone would even be concerned enough to have an opinion about the issue to make an unequivocal statement about it. Such is our age of hyper-outrage J4 wrote: Top-posting = bad and goes against the way you read Oh here we go...

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-20 Thread Norman Silverstone
I agree with you completely. It's amazing to me that anyone would even be concerned enough to have an opinion about the issue to make an unequivocal statement about it. Such is our age of hyper-outrage I use the list mostly to ask a question and, when I am able, to give an answer to

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-19 Thread Jogchum Reitsma
Op 18-01-10 19:01, Programmer In Training schreef: On 1/18/2010 8:53 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I top post. I don't think it helps to beat on people for their posting styles. It helps simply to respond to the issue under discussion. Bob snip The problem with top posting, a

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-19 Thread Elwin Estle
But that' s not how at least *I* read messages on the many mailing lists I follow. When new postings to an existing thread arrive in my mailbox, I have read the postings prior to that post already earlier, so I don' t have to read them again. For me, scrolling down all the previous postings is a

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-19 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/19/2010 2:02 PM, Elwin Estle wrote: But that' s not how at least *I* read messages on the many mailing lists I follow. When new postings to an existing thread arrive in my mailbox, I have read the postings prior to that post already earlier, so I don' t have to read them again. For me,

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-19 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Jogchum Reitsma j.reit...@hccnet.nl [01-19-10 13:14]: When new postings to an existing thread arrive in my mailbox, I have read the postings prior to that post already earlier, so I don' t have to read them again. For me, scrolling down all the previous postings is a waste of time and

[Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Robert L Cochran
I top post. I don't think it helps to beat on people for their posting styles. It helps simply to respond to the issue under discussion. Bob On 01/17/2010 11:13 PM, Patrick Horgan wrote: Have you ever noticed that people's progress in using, supporting, writing bug reports for, and

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Robert L Cochran
I fix computers for a large number of people and a lot of these are interested in using Photoshop or lighter-weight versions of the same, but they want all the hard work of fixing up a photo to be done for them instantly in software and they do not want a learning curve with this. They want a

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Programmer In Training
On 1/18/2010 8:53 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I top post. I don't think it helps to beat on people for their posting styles. It helps simply to respond to the issue under discussion. Bob snip The problem with top posting, a problem no one seems to understand despite it being so simple,

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Ken Warner
Ohhh the horror Programmer In Training wrote: On 1/18/2010 8:53 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote: I top post. I don't think it helps to beat on people for their posting styles. It helps simply to respond to the issue under discussion. Bob snip The problem with top posting, a problem no

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
2010/1/18 Ken Warner kwarner...@verizon.net: Ohhh the horror And here you have illustrated that many top-posters do so just to spite people. I don't need to quote Voltaire to illustrate what that means. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Hornung
On Monday 18 January 2010 20:40:49 Dotan Cohen wrote: ... What a nice little flamewar :) Too bad that it's on a most-of-the-time-serious mailing list, where it might frighten some new, innocent people. *gets some popcorn* Daniel signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Michaela Baulderstone
. -Original Message- From: gimp-user-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu [mailto:gimp-user-boun...@lists.xcf.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Robert L Cochran Sent: Tuesday, 19 January 2010 2:17 AM To: gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable

Re: [Gimp-user] Fwd: Re: Completely off every imaginable topic;)

2010-01-18 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:09:22AM -0800, Ken Warner wrote: Ohhh the horror Please, * Do not top post * Cut unrelated text from the rest of your post. I find it annoyng, and I see that I am not alone. Please. -- Marco Ciampa ++ | Linux User #78271 | | FSFE