An incredible topic of discussion...
Presumably because Americans do not use A4, everyone else must stop also.
Similarly, majority of people on this planet understand implicitly
yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy, but because Americans do not by default,
everyone else must adhere to what the Americans are
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 08:36:03 +0100, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote
Re Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog
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An incredible topic of discussion...
Indeed it has been. It enabled me to easily identify and add several
top-posting morons to my plonk list
. Is Libre about freedom or about restrictions?
Regards from
Tom :)
From: e-letter inp...@gmail.com
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 1 June, 2011 8:36:03
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog
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An incredible topic
Tom Davies
Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:53:39 -0700
Hi :)
I don't think there are people arguing that top-posting MUST be the ONLY way.
On the contrary, we are pointing out that if the product is to be used by more
people than are currently using it, especially if we want office workers to use
it, then we
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:52:42 +0100 (BST)
Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi :)
I don't think there are people arguing that top-posting MUST be the
ONLY way. On the contrary, we are pointing out that if the product is
to be used by more people than are currently using it, especially
On 2011-06-01 10:10 AM, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
By the way, some 20 years ago I thought that this whole top-posting
nonsense was sorted out once and for all after a handful of really
massive flame wars on USENET, crossposted all over the place and people
getting so sick and tired of the whole
Bottom and mid-posting are legacy architectures with a few desperate
dinosaurs still clinging to them.
The Fortunate 500 is a global thing, not an American thing these days.
Many of the corporations in it are not American, and all of them are
hoping to one day get in it.
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at
Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 11:15:53 PM
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On 05/30/2011 06:58 AM, Roland Hughes wrote:
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Bottom posting wastes vast quantities of developers time scrolling to
the end. Full quoting is a policy mandated by most major
On 2011-05-31 8:50 AM, Earl Melton wrote:
I don't know about [developers], but it sure wastes the hey out of
[my] time. When you've read ten or more messages with the same
subject line, you've got a fair idea what the next reply is about.
Read the poster's comment, then scroll -- if necessary
Top posting and full quoting has been the written policy at every
Fortune 500 company I've consulted at in the past 20+ years. It's in
that little policy guide handed to every new consultant and new
employee...you know...the one you are supposed to read BEFORE you do
anything.
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:04:19 -0400
From: Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org
To: users@libreoffice.org
On 2011-05-31 8:50 AM, Earl Melton wrote:
I don't
lives seem to have meaning...Think Glen Beck and Fox News
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:20 +0800, Lindsay Graham wrote:
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Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog
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Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:04:19 -0400
On 2011-05-31 11:20 AM, Lindsay Graham wrote:
I get so sick of being forced to page down to see the latest text that,
unless it is a subject in which I am particularly interested, I will
often delete the message unread if the latest contribution is not
visible on the first screen page.
As do
On Tue, 31 May 2011 12:09:25 -0400, Tanstaafl
tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote Re Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT
Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken:
On 2011-05-31 11:20 AM, Lindsay Graham wrote:
I get so sick of being forced to page down to see the latest text that,
unless
On 05/30/2011 06:58 AM, Roland Hughes wrote:
...
Bottom posting wastes vast quantities of developers time scrolling to
the end. Full quoting is a policy mandated by most major corporations
and IT organizations because it allows management (and the legal team)
to jump into the conversation at
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