On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 09:36:03 +0100 KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote:
> I don't know how I ended up appearing as the poster of that message, > since I didn't say anything like that :) It's just the result of a > very bad quoting exercise. [snip] > Guys please quote appropriately, or don't quote at all :D Yes! When some top post, and some bottom post, and some interleave post, and people fail to trim irrelevant context, there are real consequences in understanding. Inaccurate attribution is just one of many misunderstandings resulting from all this stuff. I'll interleave post (or bottom post short posts) til the day I die, but I won't try to convince others to go along with me. All I'll say is that a mailing list is supposed to be a group discussion in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and ambiguity is the enemy of meaningful discussion. Everyone: Top, bottom and interleave posters alike, should trim all context not relevant to their response. To do otherwise leaves a systemd-like entangled mess. Some context, the relevant context, should remain, or else why not start a brand new thread? And if you top-post, for gosh sakes don't say things like "I agree" or "that's why we need free software." Because it's mission impossible to go through the whole reverse order of six levels of context to figure ouw that is meant by "that's" or to figure out what the poster agrees with. On the few occasions I top-post (usually when the whole thread is top posted and it would wreck the thread to do otherwise), I use redundancy by substituting specific nouns for pronouns or articles. SteveT Steve Litt April 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
