Responses inline.
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth@5-cent.us Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:13 To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] Nerd rage (Was: IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?)
Jerry Franz wrote:
On 12/08/2010 07:03 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
Honestly, I had no one in mind. I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing list for something else. I hadn't realized how
most people
top post, don't trim, and still use aol.
It really is worth noting that the bottom-post convention
used on many
technical lists *is not* how most of the planet now does email or other
The damn thing is a conversation. Top posting is talking over everyone else.
I had a customer blast me about inlined responses, it drove me bonkers. I was responding to 15 individual questions.
electronic communications. The rage we see here over it is
really just
another technical 'religious war' by people who don't
tolerate change
well. In reality, it doesn't matter much for most things either way and far more harm is done by the howling over it than using either convention actually causes.
So, we should put up with rudeness and obnoxious behavior?
The above mention customer continued to indicate how unprofessional I was by not top posting my reply. The reason was there was no instruction to the reader that they should review the WHOLE email for new information. So now I can demonstrate good business etiquite and good netiquite. See first line of email.
P.S. I use outlook. I set it to Plain Text, and I move my cursor to where I want to type.
Thanks for hearing my rants too.
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