From: Chad Perrin <perrin@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T06:02:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Off topic: What is "top posting" ??

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 03:27:22AM +0900, David Vallner wrote:
> Charles O Nutter wrote:
> >If
> >everyone had a perfectly-threaded reader, that would work fine, as it does
> >on well-threaded forums where quoting previous messages is usually optional
> >and the UI handles visually organizing posts where appropriate.
> 
> No. This requires flipping between messages. This is slow to do and 
> confusing - I'm probably not the only person that has problems reading 
> two separate documents at once, related as they may be.

I don't have problems doing so, but I have a problem with people forcing
me to do so, since it's annoying.  I have a perfectly (or as close as
I've ever seen) threading mail user agent, and top posting still drives
me up the wall.  I also don't store every single email that has ever
been delivered to me.  I have better uses for my hard drive space than
archiving years of mailing list correspondence.

By the way, tangentially . . . is there some way to re-receive an email
on ruby-talk in case I want to reply to something I've deleted?  I've
run into that once recently, and haven't any idea how I'd go about doing
that.

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CCD CopyWrite Chad Perrin [ http://ccd.apotheon.org ]
"Real ugliness is not harsh-looking syntax, but having to
build programs out of the wrong concepts." - Paul Graham