RE: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting

2010-03-26 Thread tedd
> -Original Message- > From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] > > You didn't used to be so difficult, what changed? (look I'm bottom posting!) I wasn't trying to be difficult! Honest! Yousif hijacked my thread to tell me to bottom post. I did the right thing IMHO, and split to

RE: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting

2010-03-25 Thread Daevid Vincent
> -Original Message- > From: tedd [mailto:tedd.sperl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 9:23 AM > To: Daevid Vincent; php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting. > > At 6:34 PM -0700 3/24/10, Daevid Vincent wrote: > -snip-

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:22:31PM -0400, tedd wrote: > At 6:34 PM -0700 3/24/10, Daevid Vincent wrote: > -snip- > > You didn't used to be so difficult, what changed? Oh no, he gets testy from time to time. Paul -- Paul M. Foster -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubs

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 13:40, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 22:45, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> Bottom posting helps in users who are not participating in the thread from >> the start and would like to do so. > >    As has been discussed time and time again, there are many > pre

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Brown
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 22:45, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > Bottom posting helps in users who are not participating in the thread from > the start and would like to do so. Particularly for uniformity for archival purposes. As has been discussed time and time again, there are many prefere

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread tedd
At 6:34 PM -0700 3/24/10, Daevid Vincent wrote: -snip- You didn't used to be so difficult, what changed? For me it's preferable to select windmills that are in my best interest to tilt. Otherwise, what's the point? Cheers, tedd -- --- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http:

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Floyd Resler
On Mar 25, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Lester Caine wrote: > Floyd Resler wrote: >> Absolutely top posting is the most efficient way of doing it! If I need to >> see what the thread is all about, I have no problems starting from the >> bottom and working my way up. It would be nice if everyone adopted

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Lester Caine
Floyd Resler wrote: Absolutely top posting is the most efficient way of doing it! If I need to see what the thread is all about, I have no problems starting from the bottom and working my way up. It would be nice if everyone adopted top posting, though. Trying to read threads where posting

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Floyd Resler
Absolutely top posting is the most efficient way of doing it! If I need to see what the thread is all about, I have no problems starting from the bottom and working my way up. It would be nice if everyone adopted top posting, though. Trying to read threads where postings are at the top and b

RE: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] ...like any good bottom poster should [/snip] RTFA's, it has been discussed ad nauseum. Let's get back to PHP. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread David McGlone
> On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 08:28 +0200, Rene Veerman wrote: > > This list isn't just for programmers. It's for professionals and > beginners alike. Surely it makes sense to make the list as accessible as > possible for people? I am somewhat still a beginner and signed up on this list about 5 days a

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Thu, 2010-03-25 at 08:28 +0200, Rene Veerman wrote: > proper nettiquette is to put replies beneath the quotes you're > replying to, and deleting the rest. > > ultimately this 'rule' of bottomposting is laziness of the ones who > like that style of quoting. > they want everyone to conform to t

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010, Rene Veerman wrote: > +1 for top-posting.. *sigh*. you're joking, right? you're seriously telling me that there are people who are still sufficiently ignorant and childish that they're still fighting this top- versus bottom-posting war? the war is over. the consensus

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Daniel Egeberg
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 07:28, Rene Veerman wrote: > +1 for top-posting.. > > proper nettiquette is to put replies beneath the quotes you're > replying to, and deleting the rest. So why are you not doing it? > ultimately this 'rule' of bottomposting is laziness of the ones who > like that style

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-25 Thread Lester Caine
Robert Cummings wrote: Rene Veerman wrote: +1 for top-posting.. -1 to compensate . proper nettiquette is to put replies beneath the quotes you're replying to, and deleting the rest. ultimately this 'rule' of bottomposting is laziness of the ones who like that style of quoting. they want

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Cummings
Rene Veerman wrote: +1 for top-posting.. proper nettiquette is to put replies beneath the quotes you're replying to, and deleting the rest. ultimately this 'rule' of bottomposting is laziness of the ones who like that style of quoting. they want everyone to conform to their favorite method, so

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-24 Thread Rene Veerman
+1 for top-posting.. proper nettiquette is to put replies beneath the quotes you're replying to, and deleting the rest. ultimately this 'rule' of bottomposting is laziness of the ones who like that style of quoting. they want everyone to conform to their favorite method, so they can read more eff

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-24 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 03/25/2010 07:04 AM, Daevid Vincent wrote: ...and where's the stupid little netiquette link about hijacking another thread? ;-) oh, here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonDiego/Thread_hijacking http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#threading That bottom posting crap is so

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-24 Thread Robert Cummings
I'm sorry, but I've never had problem reading backwards in time through information. One merely understands that a piece of information is dependent on the next. Seriously, hasn't anyone else ever read history starting with now and then working their way backwards? It's just reverse chronologic

Re: [PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-24 Thread Ashley Sheridan
but no book I know of in English reads like that unless you prefer to read bottom to top which makes it very difficult to read afterwards because all the comments on the thread appear out of order Top posting doesn't make sense Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk

[PHP] Top vs. Bottom Posting.

2010-03-24 Thread Daevid Vincent
...and where's the stupid little netiquette link about hijacking another thread? ;-) oh, here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonDiego/Thread_hijacking http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#threading That bottom posting crap is so antiquated and outdated my dinosaur doesn't e