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.
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? See my post about when AOHell got on the 'Net.
I still remember the rage sparked on the Usenet by some old timers when people started using JPEG and MIME rather than GIF and uuencoding. Oh, the horror of it.
Don't remember lots of yelling.
Oh, BTW: vim over emacs.
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