Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!

Hal Vaughan wrote:

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.

I don't expect them to. Though I do expect them to learn

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.

I'm 25, I grew up doing it the right way. Though thanks for reminding me
that in addition to the Echo Boomers that I'm a part of, there was a
simultaneous, much dumber, Beavis and Butthead Generation competing for
jobs and oxygen, and driving up the demand for food and affordable housing
for the rest of us capable of independent thought. :o)

Oddly enough, though, it's usually Gen X'ers or Baby Boomers of questionable
mental stability I've encountered with this problem.
http://wiki.ursine.ca/Category:Online_lusers

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

September ended. AOL is gone from Usenet and is becoming more of a walled
community of idiots now that it's free for the idiots to self-segregate
without losing their current ISP.




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