Re: [Evolution] stability/Jewett

[Charles J Killian <charles killian comcast net>]

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Oh please!

Piss off!

The day that how one formats a response to an email is some measure of
the quality of the individual writing it and the value of that response
is the day I go back to a yellow pad and pencil.

Yikes!

Chuck...

bg wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 07:15, Dave Jewett wrote:
>
> > I apologize for the top post. Most of the world top posts;
>
> bg:
>
> Which simply demonstrates that the world is mostly made up
> of the clueless and care-less.
>
> dave:
>
> > and I could not immediate find the section of my email client 
> > to reconfigure it for this specific email.
>
> "Reconfigure it"???
>
> What email client are you using that would require reconfiguring
> in order to arrange original and reply in the correct chronological
> sequence? I have used five or six different email clients over the
> past nearly thirty years, and I cannot recall a single one that
> would require "reconfiguration".
>
> The way most emailers default in the reply edit mode is to position
> your cursor at the top of the original. The reason this is done
> is apparently, unaccountably, non-obvious to millions of the
> NetNewbies of the past several years. The reason it positions that
> way is to encourage the user to drill down through the original
> post, snipping out those portions not directly relevant to their
> intended reply, and not so incidentally reinforcing their knowledge
> of what the original was saying; then having reached the bottom of the
> original, and with any luck at all having reduced it, if it was
> a long one, by say 80%, commence their reply.
>
> Top posting may be marginally acceptable for a single one-on-one
> exchange in a business environment;
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> "Okay - Mario's on Fourth at 12:45!"
>
> > "Wanna have lunch tomorrow"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> even though it reads illogically in that reverse chronology. Fine.
>
> But top-posting is an irritant on any form of e-list or discussion
> group where there are multi-message threads.
>
> Yeah, I know, those religious wars again. But I will not
> acquiesce to sloppy, hard-to-read practices just because millions
> of clueless newbies don't know how to work their reply edit function
> as it was intended, and worse, don't much care either way.
>
> Brewster

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