[CentOS] Top posting or not/ no snipping : was rsyslog.conf

Thu Jul 30 17:51:24 UTC 2015
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 10:48:51AM -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 7/30/2015 8:13 AM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> >No snipping with bottom posting is worse than any top posting,
> >IMHO. It wastes space and time and is equally bad in digests.  But
> >you're not likely to get the worst offenders to change.
> 
> totally concur but as long as people are going to use cell phones as
> mobile computer substitutes, and considering how painful text
> editing on a touchscreen is, I doubt we'll get people to change.

getting people to change BEFORE the advent of the tiny displays didn't
work very well either, so I suspect trying to change 'em now isn't
going to work well, at all.


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