Wow, somewhere in there i see an admittance that it is marginally easier to top-post. At last. Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 30 May, 2011 19:54:50 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] <OT>Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken On 2011-05-30 12:17 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > A LOT of people top-post. Particularly normal office workers. Yeah, because they're typically a bunch of lazy bums... > Most email clients seem to default to open emails at the top of the > email. Not sure that's true (I know Thunderbirds default is to bottom post), but its a piss poor excuse for being a lazy sob. > Between normal office workers this is normally the latest thing in an > ongoing thread. If the poor worker can't remember earlier posts then > they just scroll down for a quick refresher. Like I said... LAZY. > Most normal office workers open the email, see the latest thing that > might need a response and then just click on the reply button and > start typing. Done. Next email. > > With bottom posting the email gets opened at some ancient history > that is far too familiar now and might even be something completely > unrelated. Only if the one doing the bottom posting doesn't trim their reply. It is actually much EASIER to read a properly formatted in-line posted response (ala this one). > Then the person scrolls to the bottom of the thread where all the > signatures and notes about antivirus scans and stuff so the person > has to scroll up a bit before reaching the relevant part. Tom, I refuse to believe that you are truly this stupid, seeing as we have had this conversation before, so you are obviously being intentionally disingenuous... As I said above, you KNOW that everyone who advocates bottom/in-line posting does so with the understanding that the quoted text MUST be properly trimmed to include ONLY the relevant portions needed to maintain context. ONLY a lazy sob like yourself would assume that no trimming would/should take place. > So, it's more hassle and takes longer for most office workers to do > bottom-posting and so they (oddly enough) opt for the much easier > method of top-posting. Sure, it might take a few seconds longer to properly format a longer and more complex reply (like this one) than just blindly clicking Reply and top-posting, but it is much more readable, meaningful, and pleasing to read these kinds of replies than yours. And for short replies, it only takes me a second longer, because all I have to do is highlight the relevant text needed to maintain context, and then when I click reply, that is ALL that is included in the quoted text. If your mail client won't do that, then get a real mail client that will. > Some people in here criticise me for not doing things the way they > normally work. I don't care how you work, but I do care when you purposefully and intentionally misrepresent the case between top and bottom/in-line posting. Please at LEAST be HONEST about it, Tom... -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
