Responses inline. > -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org > [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth at 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. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.