Re: A request
Re: A request
- Subject: Re: A request
- From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:02:49 -0700
I'm with you, bro. I usually don't have the stamina to scroll to the bottom
of an email. I figure if they don't have the chutzpah to put their prob in
front of my face they don't need an answer.
So flagellate me.
-- Gnarlie
Entity Joseph Weaks spoke thus:
> Yeah... death to those who top post.
> Oh... wait.
> Seriously... I prefer top posting a lot of the time. In a context of
> single issue posting that doesn't call for addressing individual items,
> it is easier to read the post if it is ready-to-hand at the top of the
> email. It is more like following a conversation as the emails come in.
> The whole desire for bottom posting seems to me to be for those who
> only chime in on a conversation and want the whole context laid out for
> them first. This particularly is the case when searching the Archives.
> The desire for bottom posting seems to be an emphasis on "Let's keep
> every email in good form so that the Archives are a good and useful
> tool." But, while we are "creating a resource" as a byproduct of this
> elist, the primary function it seems to me is a forum of communication
> where we are talking about Applescript.
> In the least, it is a matter of preference, probably dependent on one's
> usage of the list. Irregardless of protocol or RFC, to claim that one
> is inherently correct is narcissism.
>
> My 2ยข,
> Joe Weaks
>
> On Jan 10, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>> Martin Orpen wrote:
>>
>>> I thought that "death to top-posting scum" was one of Apple's list
>>> T&Cs?
>>
>> You mean its (or it was) the responsibility of the subscribers to
>> ensure that top-posters were put to death ?
>>
>> I like it. How many did we get ? (I got a duck (IYSWIM), but I didn't
>> know it was open season.)
>
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