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

[Johann Eggers]

You can read my mind ;)

 

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From: Vernon Everett [mailto:everett.vernon at gmail.com] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 29. April 2010 04:07
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Top-Posting (was Re: [hobbit] Custom script shows
purple)

 

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? =)



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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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