Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness WOT

2011-05-31 Thread Mike Mackintosh
Thanks :P Sent from my iPhone On May 31, 2011, at 9:54, "Jay Blanchard" wrote: > [snip] >> I beg to differ - the sarcastic remarks have been here since day one. > > Yeah *SHSH* What was he thinking?! > > ;) > [/snip] > > I know huh? Whatevs. > > I added something to the subject so

RE: [PHP] iPhone sadness WOT

2011-05-31 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] > I beg to differ - the sarcastic remarks have been here since day one. Yeah *SHSH* What was he thinking?! ;) [/snip] I know huh? Whatevs. I added something to the subject so that those who don't want to read these can send them to /dev/null appropriately. -- PHP General Mailing

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-05-31 07:15 AM, Jay Blanchard wrote: [snip] I can remember when it first started, no moaning about this or that, just pure PHP, and no sarcastic comments either, bring back the good old days :) [/snip] I beg to differ - the sarcastic remarks have been here since day one. Yeah *SHEEE

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-31 Thread Govinda
> Is there any way that we could simply ban these ridiculous top-posting vs > bottom-posting threads that seem to come along every few weeks? I frankly > don't care where a person writes a reply - I'm quite able to scan through an > email message to find the relevant points regardless. Maybe w

RE: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-31 Thread Jay Blanchard
[snip] I can remember when it first started, no moaning about this or that, just pure PHP, and no sarcastic comments either, bring back the good old days :) [/snip] I beg to differ - the sarcastic remarks have been here since day one. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubsc

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Alexis
Here here Tim, I thought this was meant to be a PHP list. I can remember when it first started, no moaning about this or that, just pure PHP, and no sarcastic comments either, bring back the good old days :) Alexis On 30/05/11 17:04, Tim Thorburn wrote: Is there any way that we could simply

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Tim Thorburn
Is there any way that we could simply ban these ridiculous top-posting vs bottom-posting threads that seem to come along every few weeks? I frankly don't care where a person writes a reply - I'm quite able to scan through an email message to find the relevant points regardless. Maybe we could

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Geoff Shang
On Mon, 30 May 2011, Andre Polykanine wrote: most of you post your messages *after* the quotes. It's really not comfortable: I use screenreading software here and I need to scroll with my down arrow key before I see the actual message. I use screen reading software as well and prefer bott

Re: Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Micky Hulse
The WebDesign-L has been around since early 1997... For as long as I can remember, the policy (on all list-servs I post to) has been "no top posting" and "trim quotes". Here's WD-L's policy page: Lot's of great info there... Under the "Message Body" heading:

Re: Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Tim Streater
On 30 May 2011 at 19:07, jean-baptiste verrey wrote: > I like how people just like to complain about everything^^ > But as the debate is raging I had a look over internet and > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html gave the best argument ever : > we read from *top* to *bottom *so top posting m

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread jean-baptiste verrey
I like how people just like to complain about everything^^ But as the debate is raging I had a look over internet and http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html gave the best argument ever : we read from *top* to *bottom *so top posting makes you read useless information^^ Don't worry, be PHaPpy! On

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
Ashley Sheridan wrote: And, BTW, this bottom posting has started just two or three years ago >when Thunderbird came in place. Erm, bottom posting has been the standard since day 1 until Microsoft came along and changed it with Outlook. Most people who use Windows tend not to change basic sett

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Larry Martell
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Andre Polykanine wrote: > And,  BTW, this bottom posting has started just two or three years ago > when Thunderbird came in place. You obviously have no clue what you are talking about. Since email began bottom posting was the standard. It wasn't until the sheeple

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Ken Kixmoeller
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote: > Erm,... Most people who use Windows tend not to change basic settings from > their defaults. Erm, most Winders users have no clue *how* to change them, nor that there might be some reason to do so. Ken -- PHP General Mailing List (htt

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Ashley Sheridan
>And, BTW, this bottom posting has started just two or three years ago >when Thunderbird came in place. Erm, bottom posting has been the standard since day 1 until Microsoft came along and changed it with Outlook. Most people who use Windows tend not to change basic settings from their defaults

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Andre Polykanine
kype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: http://twitter.com/m_elensule Facebook: http://facebook.com/menelion Original message From: Lester Caine To: php-general@lists.php.net Date created: , 4:15:12 PM Subject: [PHP] iPhone sadness

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Lester Caine
Andre Polykanine wrote: Hello Lester, Sorry, I don't get what you mean by bottom posting but here is my complains: most of you post your messages*after* the quotes. It's really not comfortable: I use screenreading software here and I need to scroll with my down arrow key before I see

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Andre Polykanine
te created: , 9:44:59 AM Subject: [PHP] iPhone sadness Paul M Foster wrote: >> > There IS no right way - but it IS polite to follow the rules even if >> > it is a little more difficult doing it from your chosen software. >> > Rather than apologising or simpl

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-30 Thread Ashley Sheridan
"Igor Konforti" wrote: >What? Replay to all? Its configurable! >However by default there is no spam signatures such as "send from my >iphone/k9" I didn't say the reply to all wasn't available, only that you are forced to top post (incidentally, were you forced to?) I don't see my K9 Sig part a

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Lester Caine
Paul M Foster wrote: > There IS no right way - but it IS polite to follow the rules even if > it is a little more difficult doing it from your chosen software. > Rather than apologising or simply ignoring the guide lines. I would imagine that interleaved replies or bottom posting will never b

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:50:36PM +0100, Lester Caine wrote: [snip] > > There IS no right way - but it IS polite to follow the rules even if > it is a little more difficult doing it from your chosen software. > Rather than apologising or simply ignoring the guide lines. I would imagine that in

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Igor Konforti
What? Replay to all? Its configurable! However by default there is no spam signatures such as "send from my iphone/k9" On May 29, 2011 3:29 PM, "Ashley Sheridan" wrote: > "Lester Caine" wrote: > >>Geoff Shang wrote: >>> On 29 May 2011 01:36, TR Shaw wrote: > (sorry for the top posting)

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Ashley Sheridan
"Lester Caine" wrote: >Geoff Shang wrote: >> >>> On 29 May 2011 01:36, TR Shaw wrote: (sorry for the top posting) Sent from my iPad >>> >>> Are you telling me that you can't scroll down the page on an iPad? >>> >>> I refer back to my comment that the "Sent from my iPad/iPhone" is

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Lester Caine
Geoff Shang wrote: On 29 May 2011 01:36, TR Shaw wrote: (sorry for the top posting) Sent from my iPad Are you telling me that you can't scroll down the page on an iPad? I refer back to my comment that the "Sent from my iPad/iPhone" is inherently an apology. Ironicly, it's on by default.

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 29 May 2011, Richard Quadling wrote: On 29 May 2011 01:36, TR Shaw wrote: (sorry for the top posting) Sent from my iPad Are you telling me that you can't scroll down the page on an iPad? I refer back to my comment that the "Sent from my iPad/iPhone" is inherently an apology. Iro

Re: [PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Simon J Welsh
On 29/05/2011, at 9:48 PM, Richard Quadling wrote: > On 29 May 2011 01:36, TR Shaw wrote: >> (sorry for the top posting) >> >> Sent from my iPad >> > > Are you telling me that you can't scroll down the page on an iPad? > > I refer back to my comment that the "Sent from my iPad/iPhone" is > in

[PHP] iPhone sadness

2011-05-29 Thread Richard Quadling
On 29 May 2011 01:36, TR Shaw wrote: > (sorry for the top posting) > > Sent from my iPad > Are you telling me that you can't scroll down the page on an iPad? I refer back to my comment that the "Sent from my iPad/iPhone" is inherently an apology. -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHP