Here Here! I would add that trimmers _almost always_ quote out of context, chopping off sentences and paragraphs in such a way as to completely change the meaning of the original poster, so they can spin a conversation away from its central topic towards something which makes their insignificant lives seem to have meaning...Think Glen Beck and Fox News....
On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:20 +0800, Lindsay Graham wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog > Publisher broken > Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 09:04:19 -0400 > From: Tanstaafl <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > > > On 2011-05-31 8:50 AM, Earl Melton wrote: > > > >> I don't know about [developers], but it sure wastes the hey out of > >> [my] time. When you've read ten or more messages with the same > >> subject line, you've got a fair idea what the next reply is about. > >> Read the poster's comment, then scroll -- if necessary -- to read > >> context, rather than scrolling for endless screens just to find the > >> latest comment. Just my two one-hundredths oif a Federal Reserve > >> Note's worth... > >> > > > > Please stop with the same old tired false premise/FUD... > > > > *No* *one* (in their right mind) advocates *untrimmed* bottom/inline > > posting, which, I *agree*, is the *only* thing that is worse than > > blindly top-posting. *Properly* *trimmed*, you generally don't have to > > scroll *at* *all*. > > > > Regardless of which method you engage in, you should *always* trim your > > quoted text to only the relevant portion. > > > > > This is getting to be a pretty tiresome thread, and it is obvious that > the main protagonists are never going to change their views, no matter > how right or wrong they are. > > However, you've hit the nail on the head, tanstaafl. Maybe no one > *advocates* untrimmed bottom posting, but many people do it, and it is > extremely counter-productive in so many ways. Notwithstanding all your > emphases above, the fact is that *very* *few* people, particularly those > writing in non-newsgroup environments but also many many newsgroup > posters, do any trimming, let alone the 'proper trimming' to which you > refer. That is one, just one, of the reasons why most people top-post > and will continue to do so. I get so sick of being forced to page down > to see the latest text that, unless it is a subject in which I am > particularly interested, I will often delete the message unread if the > latest contribution is not visible on the first screen page. > > This message is bottom-posted only because the last one was. > > Lindsay Graham > Canberra, Australia > -- Roland Hughes, President Logikal Solutions (630)-205-1593 http://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com http://www.infiniteexposure.net No U.S. troops have ever lost their lives defending our ethanol reserves. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
