+1 for top-posting.. proper nettiquette is to put replies beneath the quotes you're replying to, and deleting the rest. ultimately this 'rule' of bottomposting is laziness of the ones who like that style of quoting. they want everyone to conform to their favorite method, so they can read more efficiently. however, given that this is a tips-list, i'd like this bottom posting rule removed from the mailinglist rules. it's been used yesterday as a way to attack me on a second front during a heated debate about the future evolution of php (threading+shared-mem).. up until yesterday, nobody complained about my top-posting, because the tips i give are apparently considered useful. And thats the point eh? The quality of the tips? Seriously, programmers who are not flexible enough to accept tips in a top _or_ bottom _or_ mixed format.... It sounds really silly to me. Pushing all other humans to use your habits is silly when you can code an addon for any email program that puts things in the right order. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 3:34 AM, Daevid Vincent <daevid@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 That bottom posting crap is so antiquated and outdated my dinosaur doesn't 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 > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
