On 31/03/09 14:08, Ivan Van Laningham wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Tony Mechelynck > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > On 31/03/09 11:28, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > I think this is my cue to leave :) > > > > This topic has been more heavily posted on than anything else by > far; it's > > weaved its way into other topics as well and it has zip to do > with Vim > > (posting off topic being far worse than the format of the message > IMHO). > > Not only that... this is just my opinion but I think you might > need to > > relax about this stuff - just let people post text and be done > with it - > > the human brain can handle top/bottom/middle posting without too much > > trouble. :) > > > > I joined this list to learn some sexy Vim bits and pieces after > using it > > for 10+ years (Vi for another 5). I got a couple of neat bits of > > information, but that's just a couple of drops in a sea of emails - I > > posted a couple of times to try and be helpful and got personal > emails in > > response telling me that I wasn't posting with a "nice format" - > ugh, it's > > like living in a gated community where someone comes by to tell > you that > > your red tulips aren't allowed, but yellow ones would be OK. > > > > The hottest topic of conversation is how a post should be formatted, > > meaning that I could be harassed regularly if I don't post the > way people > > like. That's just silly :) > > > > I might follow things on the archive if the subjects are clear > enough but > > as for staying as a member of the list... just can't be done. > > > > Cheers folks, > > Derek > > I believe it wouldn't have been such a flood if you hadn't been so > adamant in defending top-posting as the only valid format, and later as > the only one available to you, because your (IMHO braindead) device > wastes everyone's bandwidth for the (egotistical) purpose of sparing > bandwidth between your device and its server. > > As someone already said: get a real computer, in Rome do as the Romans, > and you won't be burned at the stake. > > > > > Regards, > Tony. > > > > Oh, please. Out of 28 posts in this thread, only two have been from > Derek. In his first post, he did not defend "top-posting as the only > valid format," merely commented that Blackberries didn't allow > bottom-posting. In his second post, he pointed out that list traffic > over the last week or so has mostly been about the evils of top-posting, > with precious little about vim. Please don't twist the facts to suit > your agenda. > > The Roman Empire fell in 476. > > Metta, > Ivan
Sorry, I didn't "twist the facts to suit my agenda", what happened is that I "honestly misremembered" who had posted the original "defense of top-posting" which caused all this flood. Go back to Jeff Lanzarotta's's post titled "Re: IntelliSense for C#" dated 28/03/09 12:37 -0700, which went as far as saying that "the most annoying thing on the Internet is not replying at the *top* of an email, it is rude people." and you will see that this discussion didn't materialize out of thin air, especially since there was another post (which I can't find back at the moment, maybe in a different thread) with a "defense" of top-posting in several points, one of which amounted to "I can't be bothered to do otherwise than Outlook Express's defaults" (and since I'm quoting from memory, it may not be the exact phrasing he used). And by the way, next time you might go so far as posting in plaintext, I believe it's another "preferred format" on this list. Best regards, Tony. -- The chief cause of problems is solutions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
