On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 12:49:28 -0700 mark_at_yahoo via Rosegarden-user <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/7/22 9:28 AM, Andrew S wrote: > > > I used to religiously quote and post at the bottom (avoid top posting). > > But then landed in a corporate environment where all of the (hundreds) of > > my coworkers had **absolutely no clue** about bottom posting, and had no > > notion of "top posting" and why that's a bad thing. > > I've "tilted at the windmill" of top-posting for 30 years. It's > hopeless. Even repeated lectures to my extremely intelligent and > educated (but non-technical) friends has little effect because they've > been so brainwashed by the horror that is Microsoft Outlook. They nod > their heads in understanding, interleave for one or two emails, and then > slip back into old habits. > > Back in the Usenet newsgroup era, when bandwidth at the kilobyte level > was actually significant, insufficiently trimmed replies would bring > scathing castigation raining down upon the offending poster. At least > until the combined blows of "Eternal September" and Canter/Siegel began > the decades-long agonizing death of the newsgroup system. Before that > the only thing to worry about was self referential computer nerd > meta-humor like the alt.quote-me (the "self-archiving" newsgroup where > all posts were encouraged to bottom-post all previous ones) and > alt.me-too (the only allowed reply was, "Me too!") (the canonical > response to the canonical Usenet question, "Where can I find some good > porn FTP servers?") newsgroups. Ah, the good old days. > > Maybe Rosegarden-user and -devel can be bastions of hope in this > otherwise bleak netiquette landscape. How true, how true. Would YOU happen to remember if at one time it was acceptable to attach small images to usenet posts or am I confusing it with compuserve where it all began for me? I do remember attachements and also that users-at-large (beleive it or not) were exercising restraint and the system worked well enough thank you. I've already suggested to usenet providers like giganews to gang up and take back usenet, maybe with equally limited very small ads to finance things and very small attachments to balanve the ads, but to no avail. Thinking of the top posting and "of spelling incapable" texto crowd, it might be just as well. -- https://i.imgur.com/b6voLxD.png _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list [email protected] - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
