At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that
top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please
stop doing it?
It is very difficult to understand what is going on in a mailing list,
especially the archives, if it is common practice to top-post rather
than reply
Op 30-9-2011 10:46, Ross Gardler schreef:
At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that
top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please
stop doing it?
It is very difficult to understand what is going on in a mailing list,
especially the archives
On 30 September 2011 10:45, floris v floris...@gmail.com wrote:
Op 30-9-2011 10:46, Ross Gardler schreef:
...
That was probably aimed at me.
Not at all, it was aimed at what I observe is a generally increasing trend.
Ross
[mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 01:47
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Top posting is bad
At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that
top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please
stop doing it?
It is very difficult
be unpleasant for you
Not just merely 'unpleasant'
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing
From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 01:47
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Top posting is bad
At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that
top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please
On 30 September 2011 13:18, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote:
bad may be unpleasant for you but how about looking at the
interoperability challenges and not encouraging belief that there
is a silver-bullet, one-size fits all fiat when the only thing
that works is civility.
--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
...
At the risk of starting a flame-war I
am going to state that
top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can
we please
stop doing it?
This was discussed on the early postings in this list
and a mentor said
On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
...
At the risk of starting a flame-war I
am going to state that
top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can
we please
stop doing
30, 2011 05:39
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org
Subject: Re: Top posting is bad
From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 01:47
To:�ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Top posting is bad
Not just merely 'unpleasant'
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: The lost context.
Q: What
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
When the questions and answers are deep in the bottom
and get deeper and deeper then I tend to tune out and move on.
That is because 'bottom post' is not just adding stuff at the end...
it is adding stuff 'after'
the
people
normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: The lost context.
Q: What makes top-posted replies harder to read
than bottom-posted?
A: Yes.
Q: Should I trim down the quoted part of an email
to which I'm replying?
Norbert
.
-Original Message-
From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 05:40
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org
Subject: Re: Top posting is bad
On 30 September 2011 13:18, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org
wrote:
bad
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:17:05 +0100
Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
I have no more to say on the matter. People will continue to post in
the way that they prefer (or must as a result of their chosen
clients). Those who are undecided and unrestricted will hopefully make
a more
to this
conversation.)
- Dennis
-Original Message-
From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org]
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 08:52
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Top posting is bad
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep
should I start my reply below the quoted
text?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people
normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: The lost context.
Q: What makes top-posted replies harder to read
than bottom-posted?
A: Yes
On 30 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Ian Lynch wrote:
It's amazing how such small things can cause such controversy and angst.
It's a sign of culture clash, in my view, rather than an issue in itself.
There's probably a Godwin's-Law-type aphorism about it.
S.
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote:
On 30 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Ian Lynch wrote:
It's amazing how such small things can cause such controversy and angst.
It's a sign of culture clash, in my view, rather than an issue in itself.
There's probably a
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