Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-22 Thread Thomas Mäder
Nazis! And now that this thread is dead, we can all go and enjoy our lives ;-) Thomas On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:50 AM, taha siddiqi tawushaf...@gmail.com wrote: Now you all get a gun and shoot me :) I got your point How many times No No No ..

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-21 Thread Stephen Swinsburg
You read text from bottom to top? I thought this was dead and buried, people can post however they like and we are not going to conform to someone's 'standard'. Think of it this way, it's a mailing list where people write and read emails. How do you read and write your email? Pretty sure

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-21 Thread taha siddiqi
Now you all get a gun and shoot me :) I got your point How many times No No No .. Enough This is a declaration I, TAHA, WILL NEVER SAY THAT TOP POSTING IS BAD OR BOTTOM POSTING IS GOOD CLOSE THIS

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-20 Thread C. Bergström
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-15 Thread Johan Compagner
I vote for top or interleaved, dont bottom post thats the most horrible one On 14/03/2009, taha siddiqi tawushaf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, The story goes like this... Once I was brave enough to take on linux-kernal programming and joined a mailing list. My first post brought me a link which

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-15 Thread Anton Veretennikov
Those who receive first part of e-mail through sms message are very thankful if valuable part is on top. On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Johan Compagner jcompag...@gmail.com wrote: I vote for top or interleaved, dont bottom post thats the most horrible one On 14/03/2009, taha siddiqi

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-15 Thread Erik van Oosten
I don't even read bottom-posts. All that scrolling gives me RSI. Regards, Erik. Anton Veretennikov wrote: Those who receive first part of e-mail through sms message are very thankful if valuable part is on top. -- Erik van Oosten http://www.day-to-day-stuff.blogspot.com/

RE: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-15 Thread Fatih Mehmet UCAR
+1 -Original Message- From: Erik van Oosten [mailto:e.vanoos...@grons.nl] Sent: 15 March 2009 16:11 To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: Re: Why are we top-posting... I don't even read bottom-posts. All that scrolling gives me RSI. Regards, Erik. Anton Veretennikov wrote: Those

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-15 Thread Brill Pappin
chuckle This is an old argument that I've seen get pretty heated, but I haven't heard it mentioned since I used news groups for this sort of thing. Anyway -- What Martijn said... - Brill On 14-Mar-09, at 9:25 PM, taha siddiqi wrote: I was not expecting this... ( look I am also top

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-15 Thread taha siddiqi
I have my arguments but it is your mailing list, so I have to abide by the rules besides Martijn is my teacher ( Wicket in Action ) so can't argue.. :) Still came to know about 'Advantages of top posting', thanks everyone for the response - taha On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:54 AM, Brill Pappin

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-14 Thread Jeremy Thomerson
In my experience, top vs bottom vs interleaved posting is dependent on the community. I searched my gmail archives which have the list back through around 2006 and found only four threads where someone mentioned top posting - and most of them had no response. In my opinion, I appreciate top

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-14 Thread Adriano dos Santos Fernandes
Jeremy Thomerson wrote: In my experience, top vs bottom vs interleaved posting is dependent on the community. Yes. In my opinion, I appreciate top posting I do not. When you post something, and one reply with his (mis)understands, it's much more difficult to continue a decent dialog when

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-14 Thread Brill Pappin
I always top post, and it's how I hope to see replies. I want the response at the top because it the most relevant information for the thread... if I should need to get some background or context I can see it in descending order and only read back as far as I want. Although I've seen the

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-14 Thread Brill Pappin
But you didn't bottom post, you interleaved the post... which IMO was useful for this message. - Brill On 14-Mar-09, at 1:23 PM, Adriano dos Santos Fernandes wrote: Jeremy Thomerson wrote: In my experience, top vs bottom vs interleaved posting is dependent on the community. Yes. In my

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-14 Thread Martijn Dashorst
Top posting is, has been and forever will be acceptable in this community. If you don't like that, you're free to bottom post, interleave post or not post at all. Nobody is forcing you to read this list, nobody will flame you when you bottom post. Just don't start telling us how to conduct our

Re: Why are we top-posting...

2009-03-14 Thread taha siddiqi
I was not expecting this... ( look I am also top posting ). All I wanted to say was MAY BE it is easy to read the archives that way.( MAY BE ) Thanks anyways taha On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Martijn Dashorst martijn.dasho...@gmail.com wrote: Top posting is, has been and forever will be