[hobbit] Top-Posting (was Re: [hobbit] Custom script shows purple)

[Xymon User in Richmond]

On Wed, April 28, 2010 12:29, Josh Luthman wrote:
> It's 2010.
>
> If you're still using Pine then you're going to feel consequences a
> decade after technology grows.  It's like people complaining Windows 95
> won't support VMware VIC.  Technology moves, keep up.
>
> I'm sorry if this offends anyone, but the reality of the situation is
> things change.
>
> Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373
>
> “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
> continue that counts.” --- Winston Churchill
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> It's not a problem, I don't think, most of the people on this list top
>> post. At the very least its the method I prefer, it makes it easier to
>> keep up with an on-going conversation.
>>
>> Thanks, Larry Barber
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:02 AM, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On the topic of Top-Posting...
>>>
>>> In the Gmail world, many times things that are replaced with
>>>
>>> - Show Quoted Text -
>>>
>>> in an alternate, smaller, insignificant font sometimes don't grab
>>> your eyes when responding.  Sorry for that.
>>>
>>> Further, I'm on about six lists.  I have one that despises top
>>> posting, one that despises bottom posting, and another that despises
>>> interstitial posting.
>>>
>>> I'm not motivated to keep up with it all.
>>>
>>> If it's a big enough problem, then I'll just stop posting altogether
>>> if that's what the community wants.
>>>

Apologies to Gerald for any offense.  I'm a dinosaur.  But I certainly
keep up with technology. This is done with Squirrelmail for convenience,
but I have a plugin for "old timey" quoting for Outlook at the office.

If I'm offending people, I'm the one who should stop posting.