On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 16:26 -0700, Thaths wrote: > > *ahem* *mumble*top post*mumble* > > hehe you can mumble all you want, but i posit that although i > technically made a top post in one sense of the term (quoting the text > to which i was responding after my own response) it was not in the sense > that is disapproved of.
So...you techies...tell me....what IS so evil about this top posting thing? I have had so many disgusted YM messages/phone call from Udhay on this topic (well, if not utterly disgusted, they were not very gusted.). When I first got gmail, I was happy to see the last message being nicely quoted in my reply, AND the cursor would be at the top, so I would type there....now, out of FoU (Fear of Udhay) I cut and paste what I want from the message on top and do a "bottom" post... did your Computer Science professors minus ten marks for top-posting, or what? Seems to be from that last line of Rishab's (sorry, rishab's) that there is a caste system here.... Rishab, I used to type only lower case for many years, and then had to give it up as being reader-unfriendly; I got a lot of complaints. And while on the subject of practices, what's the protocol on remaining invisible in YM or Gtalk? I, personally, cannot handle multiple conversations at once, neither can I remain silent when someone "pings" me, so I remain invisible.... All you Google employees, I didn't get a reply to my question to Google, "What happened to conferencing "group chat" on Gtalk?" I don't have that ability anymore; it was there, very briefly. Yahoo Messenger wins hands down on the chat front...invisible, selected stealth settings, LOTS of emoticons (including at least a couple that MMK developed), and so on.... I can see that the cat has to be tied to the tree during the lesson, what I want to know is, why? Deepa.
