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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