Re: [OT] Re: Samba update moved my shares (again)

From: Gary Turner (kk5st2_at_verizon.net)
Date: 04/23/05

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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    a.list.address@gmail.com wrote:
    > On 4/22/05, Gary Turner <kk5st2@verizon.net> wrote:
    >
    >>There is good reason for bottom posting and no good reason for top
    >>posting. It is not a matter of choice. It is a matter of usability,
    >>long established protocol, and best practice. See
    >><http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html#ss2.3>.
    >
    >
    > Actually, there is one good reason for top posting that I can think
    > of, and continue to experience often: When people fail to trim quotes
    > and then bottom post, you often have to scroll way down just to see
    > what the current poster is saying, even if it's only something simple
    > like "thanks." <snip>

    That is not a top/bottom post issue, but a question of whether previous
    posts have been properly trimmed or not. Your support for top posting
    smacks of creating one buggy behavior to fix another. That defines an
    ugly hack. God knows we have to do that enough writing html+css for IE.
       There is no reason to do it for a simple matter of quoting and
    responding on a mail-list.

    The next time you scroll through a bunch of trash to get to the new
    post, bitch about the improperly edited quotes, not the proper bottom post.

    cheers,

    gary 

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