Nerd rage (Was: IPV4 is nearly depleted, are you ready for IPV6?)

[Jerry Franz <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/08/2010 07:03 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> Honestly, I had no one in mind.
> I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing
> list for something else.  I hadn't realized how most people top post,
> don't trim, and still use aol.

It really is worth noting that the bottom-post convention used on many 
technical lists *is not* how most of the planet now does email or other 
electronic communications. The rage we see here over it is really just 
another technical 'religious war' by people who don't tolerate change 
well. In reality, it doesn't matter much for most things either way and 
far more harm is done by the howling over it than using either 
convention actually causes.

I still remember the rage sparked on the Usenet by some old timers when 
people started using JPEG and MIME rather than GIF and uuencoding. Oh, 
the horror of it.

Oh, BTW:  vim over emacs.

;-)

-- 
Benjamin Franz

Asperger's are wonderful people but they can be very difficult to get 
along with.
The expression "would argue with a signpost" comes to mind."
                                  - John Wilkins, blog comment, May 24 2006
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