And the day a listserv figures out that x on a list prefers interleaved, y prefers top posted and z doesn't care a shit will be when alan turing will really smile up there in heaven
------Original Message------ From: Eugen Leitl Sender: [email protected] To: [email protected] ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] aqvavit Sent: Feb 25, 2012 15:32 On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:13:28PM +0100, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:44 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find bottom posting gauche and insensitive. Its difficult to read, > > and I really can't understand why its still relevant today. I > > suppose its one of those quaint vestigal remnants of an early form of > > netiquette? The main problem with boors is that they don't realize they're being boors, why they're being boors, and why being boors should carry a social stigma. This lack of awareness typically correlates with with poor content and hence high probability to land in the twit folder. That kind of behaviour would seem to be obviously self-defeating, but Dunning-Kruger strikes again. > Bottom posting makes fewer assumptions about the kind of mail reader > you are using. The day mailers can trim replies (threading info is lost by mouthbreathers anyway), cite correctly and interleave automatically will be the day the MUAs will pass the Turing test, and the Internet transcends overnight. -- srs (blackberry)
