Please stop top posting [was: TrueCrupt...]
Cathal Garvey
cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Wed Jan 7 02:21:42 PST 2015
> You know the history and reasons the internet has against top
> posting, especially on newgroups and mailing lists.
I know the reasons but they don't apply to me, nor to a growing majority
of users who don't use text-only clients. Most clients these days are
pre-configured to hide replied-to text unless directly quoted, making
pre-quoted text actually more irritating than sub-quoted.
Despite this, I *do* use text-only mode, and nevertheless find scrolling
down to find replies inline irksome.
So, as I mentioned previously, this is a cultural difference; I find
your preferred mode annoying, and you find mine annoying. Tough; you
don't own the internet, and neither do I. I won't waste my time
conforming to your expectations, and you won't to mine. So we get over
it and move on.
..did you really call top-posting "abuse of other people"? Dude, get
some perspective!
On 07/01/15 10:07, grarpamp wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 5:52 AM, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
>>
>> However, sorry, but I'll continue emailing as I always have done; if I
>> come from a different internet culture to you, and if top-posting is
>> anathema to you but not I, that's just
>
> ... lazy.
>
> You know the history and reasons the internet has against top
> posting, especially on newgroups and mailing lists. You and everyone
> else top posting are just lazy culture at the expense/abuse of other
> people, in particular the brain power needed to decipher your
> messages in both direction and context. Stop wasting hundreds of
> other people's cycles and invest some of your own. Learn trimming
> and interleaving replies, google it, make your mail art, not dog shit.
>
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