>Hi John >Why people hates bottom post? >B.R. >Wayne Ummm, people *like* bottom-post.
Once I see a top-poster's text come to an end, then the "On <date>, <person> said:"-line followed by an earlier reply, I simply stop reading. If that means I don't have any context as to what you were asking/answering/stating/etc., then I have nothing to reply to. Period. It's okay if you just want to say something like "Thanks, that worked!", in which case I wouldn't need to reply nor read any further, but if you're asking for clarification, say, "But when would I use 'argdo' vs 'bufdo'?", again, I stop reading at that, ignore the text below that (which, I imagine, you'd expect me to scroll down to read, then back up again to reread your question), and again, you get no reply. Sorry, but if it's just too damned much *bother* for someone to correctly format his emails/posts to adhere to conventions, then it's certainly as much or more bother for me to reply to it, so I simply choose to *not* do so. If you wanted to ask me a question in person, but you insisted on speaking Esperanto (which I don't speak), insisting that *I* learn it to communicate with you, or getting cute and speaking "backwards" or in pig-latin, or in an inaudible whisper, making it much more difficult for *me* when I'm trying to help *you*, then sorry, I just won't go through that bother, and you'll have to make do *without* my help. And presumably without the help of others as well. Same with email and posts. I don't see why that particular concept is so hard for top-posters to understand. (And again, insert my macro-tirade against html email, retina-searing blinding-white backgrounds, weird-ass colorschemes, borders, indentations, other nausea-inducing quoting-styles, etc. Make reading a post/email difficult or annoying, and I just delete it unread and skip to the next one. And my tolerance/patience decreases with each passing day the more I see such "offending" posts.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
