Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:42, Paul Johnson wrote:
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Please quit top posting.

Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which
surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some way
toward making the top-posting "debate" -- which is surely
the least interesting debate in the history of computing --
go away:

http://laniels.org/scripts/top_post_fixer.pl.txt

This will tag all the lines in a given message by whether
they're raw line or one containing a quote. It's primitive,
but hopefully it's enough of a start that someone can expand
upon it and end the spectacularly stupid debate.

Why should the reader have to fix spectacularly broken presentation
on behalf of the writer? If they want an audience, they should do it
right the first time. It's not like this is anything new, RFC1855 is
12 years old now. People should just not learn from Outlook and
expect it to be the way the Internet works.

Oh, and everyone that uses e-mail spends their time reading every RFC
out there.

Remember you're always going to be dealing with newbies -- at least
until kids grow up writing e-mail the right way, and it'll take a while
for that to happen.

Face it: Usenet isn't the only place where September is eternal.

Hal


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