Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:42, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Stephen R Laniel wrote: >> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> Please quit top posting. >> > >> > Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which >> > surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some way >> > toward making the top-posting "debate" -- which is surely >> > the least interesting debate in the history of computing -- >> > go away: >> > >> > http://laniels.org/scripts/top_post_fixer.pl.txt >> > >> > This will tag all the lines in a given message by whether >> > they're raw line or one containing a quote. It's primitive, >> > but hopefully it's enough of a start that someone can expand >> > upon it and end the spectacularly stupid debate. >> >> Why should the reader have to fix spectacularly broken presentation >> on behalf of the writer? If they want an audience, they should do it >> right the first time. It's not like this is anything new, RFC1855 is >> 12 years old now. People should just not learn from Outlook and >> expect it to be the way the Internet works. > > Oh, and everyone that uses e-mail spends their time reading every RFC > out there.
I don't expect them to. Though I do expect them to learn > Remember you're always going to be dealing with newbies -- at least > until kids grow up writing e-mail the right way, and it'll take a while > for that to happen. I'm 25, I grew up doing it the right way. Though thanks for reminding me that in addition to the Echo Boomers that I'm a part of, there was a simultaneous, much dumber, Beavis and Butthead Generation competing for jobs and oxygen, and driving up the demand for food and affordable housing for the rest of us capable of independent thought. :o) Oddly enough, though, it's usually Gen X'ers or Baby Boomers of questionable mental stability I've encountered with this problem. http://wiki.ursine.ca/Category:Online_lusers > Face it: Usenet isn't the only place where September is eternal. September ended. AOL is gone from Usenet and is becoming more of a walled community of idiots now that it's free for the idiots to self-segregate without losing their current ISP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
