On 03/25/2010 07:04 AM, Daevid Vincent wrote:
...and where's the stupid little netiquette link about hijacking another thread? ;-) oh, here it is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DonDiego/Thread_hijacking http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php#threading That bottom posting crap is so antiquated and outdated my dinosaur doesn't even follow it. Top posting is efficient and useful for everyone involved in the thread. If someone is not smart enough to realize they're reading the end of the thread, and have to scroll to the bottom of it one time to catch up, then to me that's natural selection and they just don't deserve to be participating. Go read a coloring book or watch WoW!Wow!Wubbzy! or something equally trite because clearly their brain can't grasp basic concepts even. _____ From: Yousif Masoud [mailto:yousif.masoud@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 6:27 PM To: Daevid Vincent Cc: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Will PHP ever "grow up" and have threading? P.S. I HATE bottom posting. WTF do I have to scroll all the way down past hundreds of useless lines just to read a "me too" or some other comment. If it's at the top, I can simply just keep moving from header to header in Outlook (or your email GUI of choice). DELETE as I go. Easy. Simple. Efficient. http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
Bottom posting helps in users who are not participating in the thread from the start and would like to do so.
Consider that you weren't able to check your mail for 2-3 days. A mail has come which has an extremely interesting subject.
If everyone top posts, you cannot read the history of the thread. If everyone bottom posts, you can read the history, know everything about the problem and then answer, instead of just popping up "What is this thread about?"
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