[CentOS] Sorry

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 7:06 AM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> On 05/17/14 18:29, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>> Am 17.05.2014 23:22, schrieb Always Learning:
> <snip>
>>> I blame M$ for introducing TOP POSTING.
>>
>> It makes no sense to blame a company, it is the people who don't make
>> enough effort to help everyone on a mailinglist to follow the
>> discussions in an efficient way by seeing the questions and answers in a
>> quick way.
> <snip>
> Wrong. It was M$ Lookout, er, Outlook, that introduced top posting by default.

I'ts not really a bad thing in the context of 1<->1 messages and
business communications where you are interested enough to not need
the reply put in context for you but might want the audit-trail of the
whole previous conversation for reference.

But mail list messages go to a lot of people who have only a passing
interest and unless they are a participant in the thread, may not have
seen it before to understand the context - or they may have found it
in an archive, looking for the same answers.    So, it you want anyone
to pay attention, the message has to make sense on its own with
irrelevant cruft removed and the new parts place in the correct
context.

Anyway, defaults only matter if you don't understand how to move your
cursor before typing.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com