-sigh- let's see if I can get this attribution thing fixed... gnus-outlook-deuglify-article couldn't process this message
On 2011-09-08, Tom Davies wrote: > On Thu, 8/9/11, Ken Springer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9/8/11 11:37 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > >> On 2011-09-08 11:14 AM Tom Davies wrote: > >> > >>> Interspersing or bottom-posting ensures that every message needs to be > >>> scrolled through unless people delete all the stuff that is irrelevant > >>> (in their opinion, which 'might not' be the same as the opinion of the > >>> person reading). Top posting means that most emails can be read > >>> without any scrolling at all. > >> > >> Not true. You have to scroll down to see what is being responded to then > >> scroll back up to see the response. Since you do not include proper > >> attribution marks for the posts you respond to, the immediate message > >> you respond to appears to be written by you. Well, I guess if someone has a pretty damn good short term memory, then we really don't need any context at all. That's right, we need ... erm, what was I talking about again? > > Larry has just presented two other problems with top-posting. > > No, he didn't. He just showed that he has not read any of the posts > yet as his arguments are already countered in previous posts. What was exactly your argument to support lack of proper citation/attribution marks? > Besides it doesn't matter how strong the argument against top-posting > might be. The fact is that it is widely used especially by office > workers. Do we want to stop office workers from using LibreOffice? > Alienating them would be a good way to get them to stay with whatever > else they already use. Maybe we should instead teach office workers to use e-mail correctly. > > Betamax was a better format than VHS but it lost the battle for > acceptance and now the argument is irrelevant anyway. Perhaps it is > similar with bottom posting. It might be better but almost no-one in > our target markets use it (note the "almost" there). Most people > would rather use forums anyway as mailing lists are ancient and > out-dated. Unlike betamax and VHS, top-posted emails and bottom-posted emails are both readable by the same kind of client, so that analogy won't work. With betamax and VHS, unless you buy a VCR that supports both, or two VCRs, you get to stick with the choice you made and you can't use the other format. > > So, do we want to go the route of betamax, ie obscurity, or do we want > to get LibreOffice out there and being used? > > > > -- > Ken > > Mac OS X 10.6.8 > Firefox 6.0.2 > Thunderbird 6.0.2 > LibreOffice 3.3.3 > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted Can't you at least delete signatures? -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
