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

[Scott Ryan]

amen.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Vernon Everett
<everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Top posting? Bottom Posting? Who cares? Really?
> What are we trying to achieve here? Stop and think about it for a moment.
>
> This is a forum for us to share knowledge, experience and know-how with each
> other.
> This forum is kept alive by posts from people who give up their time to
> post. They don't have to post, they do it as a favour. A donation of time,
> as it were.
> Complaining about how people post to this forum, is like giving a hundred
> bucks to charity, in ten dollar notes, and they complain the want two
> fifties instead.
> Would you give again? I know I wouldn't.
>
> Most people on this list are pretty smart, and know how to scroll up, and
> some even know how to scroll down.
> You get a response to your question posted by somebody who is doing us all a
> favour. Take it and be happy. Don't complain about how you got it.
> That's just being ungrateful.
>
> Regards
>     Vernon
>
> P.S. This response has also been bottom-posted for your convenience.
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Pretty much.  Don't you drive in the painted lines? =)
>>
>> Josh Luthman
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>> Direct: 937-552-2343
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>> 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 9:21 PM, Rob McBroom <mailinglist0 at skurfer.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Apr 28, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Josh Luthman wrote:
>>>
>>> >> There is no relevant updates to the technology of email that would
>>> >> require me to stop using pine to read it.
>>> >
>>> > The changes aren't in SMTP or POP, but rather the client applications.
>>> >  Clients today are predominately top posting.  Clients years ago used bottom
>>> > posting.
>>>
>>> So this decade of technological progress you were referring to is the
>>> default location of the cursor? ;)
>>>
>>> While we're on the subject, for those that don't know about it, this is
>>> awesome: http://code.google.com/p/quotefixformac/
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rob McBroom
>>> <http://www.skurfer.com/>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>
> Top posting? Bottom Posting? Who cares? Really?
> What are we trying to achieve here? Stop and think about it for a moment.
>
> This is a forum for us to share knowledge, experience and know-how with each
> other.
> This forum is kept alive by posts from people who give up their time to
> post. They don't have to post, they do it as a favour. A donation of time,
> as it were.
> Complaining about how people post to this forum, is like giving a hundred
> bucks to charity, in ten dollar notes, and they complain the want two
> fifties instead.
> Would you give again? I know I wouldn't.
>
> Most people on this list are pretty smart, and know how to scroll up, and
> some even know how to scroll down.
> You get a response to your question posted by somebody who is doing us all a
> favour. Take it and be happy. Don't complain about how you got it.
> That's just being ungrateful.
>
> Regards
>     Vernon
>
> P.S. This response has also been top-posted for your convenience.



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Scott Ryan
http://bonoboslr.wordpress.com/