On 05/31/2011 12:41 PM, Tanstaafl wrote:
This is a silly argument...
On 2011-05-31 1:16 PM, Lindsay Graham wrote:
Ah, but neither of us would *ever *need to page down to see the
current post if we both top-posted.
Irrelevant... like I said, the same thing applies to a properly trimmed
bottom/inline posted message.
The only time I need to scroll a bottom/inline posted message (which I
mostly don't bother doing, I just click delete) is when someone like Tom
bottom posts *without trimming*...
You cannot claim, in a general context, that there is there is a
*proper* way of using one's mail client.
I can, I did, and I meant it.
In most mailing lists (and I access libreoffice-users through a
mailing list, not a newsgroup) and almost *all *commercial
correspondence, top-posting is used.
Ahem... the posting guidelines link at the bottom of each and every one
of the libreoffice-users list asks you to please bottom post... so your
own example was misplaced... ;)
Why? Because, it is the most suitable in those environments.
Wrong - it is because most people are lazy, and it is the easiest, and
because it is the default for Outlook, which is what most corporate
drones use.
On the other hand, I agree that bottom-posting is suitable in a
well-disciplined technical newsgroup -- but how many are
well-disciplined (ie, follow newsgroup netiquette)? Not many.
They are not well disciplined because they are lazy, and because they
can get away with in most cases.
One of these again?
How many of these are needed?
Sorry to add to the spam... And yes there was one of these already
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