On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 10:41:02AM -0600, John C wrote:
> It's kinda like a religious fanaticism... "everyone should act
> and believe like I do". And yes, you're absolutely right - there
> is too much bile being spewed at top posters.
>
> So which is best, top posting or bottom posting? Who knows? Who
> &^%^% cares? I certainly don't. On this list however, I normally
> bottom post primarily because a good deal of the folks on Debian
> User (many of them extremely helpful members) seem to have a
> problem following the thread if it's top posted.
>
> Or at least it seems that way. :)
>
> This argument reminds me of the fuss over xterm backgrounds many
> years ago.
>
> The fanatics insisted that the background should be black and the
> text white because that was the "natural" way to view a computer
> screen. It was the way that it would always remain. Of course,
> when I went to my office supply store and tried to buy some black
> paper and white ink they thought I was crazy.
>
> I notice that the Gnome terminal now defaults to black on white.
>
> Now if I could only figure out how to post sideways ;-)
>
> John
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I've ordered my paragraphs for easy bottom-up reading, too.
Come to think of it, I've used a similar technique to come up with
passwords on occasion, opening up a book and reading a column of
characters.
Kind of hard to read, it's.
Happy to oblige... Following is your post turned sideways, though the
characters aren't so cooperative. I used perl for this, but maybe
should try it in ruby as a learning exercise...
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Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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