Re: NFS

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Actually, I have had a rather pleasant conversation with a gentleman 
offline.  It is folks who post things like this which offer nothing 
constructive that encourage a flame war.

Sometimes if you don't have anything useful to contribute, it's just 
best, well, not to contribute.

On 06/14/2010 01:32 PM, bruce wrote:
> oh my gawd!!!
>
> are we doin a top/bottom post flame war again!!!
>
> alright.. all who are frmo san fran.. which do you like, top, or bottom!!
>
> and what about people who like diagonal posting..
>
> and how about side posting... for those who can't make up their minds...
>
> any others that have been left out??
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Tim<ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>    
>> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 12:07 -0500, Dale J. Chatham wrote:
>>      
>>> But to answer your question, I have *NEVER* posted this way.  You're
>>> fighting over 15 years of training to do it otherwise.
>>>        
>> Hmm, couldn't have been a real usenet user then...
>>
>>      
>>> But, given 15 years, and this being the *ONLY* list (of upward of 50
>>> that I'm on) that insists on this standard, well, do the math.
>>>        
>> And I've been on dozens of lists, of which none of them used top
>> posting.
>>
>> By the way, despite the "bottom posting" name, the idea is *not* to
>> quote all of the prior message and respond under it.  But to remove all
>> of the prior post that isn't needed for your reply.  Like I've done.
>>
>> Better still, is to intersperse your responses with the bits you're
>> responded to, like I did (otherwise known as "usenet style" posting).
>>
>> Or, for those cases, where you're replying to a huge amount of waffle
>> that defies easy editing, *briefly* summarise it before your response.
>> Those who really need to see the entire prior message can look at the
>> actual prior message.
>>
>> Then the next person gets to read a coherent conversation, top to
>> bottom, and doesn't have to scroll up and down, all over the place, to
>> make sense of replies disconnected from what they're responding to.
>>
>> order.
>> this
>> in
>> conversations
>> read
>> world
>> western
>> mainstream
>> the
>> in
>> us
>> of
>> None
>>
>> We don't put books back to front, nor the paragraphs.
>>
>> --
>> [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r
>> 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686
>>
>> Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored.  I
>> read messages from the public lists.
>>
>>
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