Well said, Peter.
From: Peter West <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately? To: [email protected] On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +0000, Tom Davies wrote: > >> >> Bottom posting requires a ton of extra work such as trimming and such >> which office workers really do not have time for. >> > Trimming is a sensible thing to do, whichever way you post. It's work for the poster, not the reader, and top-posting is a benefit for the reader, not (primarily) the poster. ..... > I really hope you don't mean that trimming is a waste of time. Ever see > a reply to a digest message that quoted the whole digest. What fun. > But doesn't trimming undermine the argument? How can the discussion be read sequentially when bits of it have been deleted? -- Peter West "For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits himself?" -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
