Re: [Nolug] passport account? wanna download something for me?

From: Shannon Roddy <sroddy_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:11:39 -0500
Message-ID: <8d48b6ba0806261211j6d843c84v59e308118f827d55@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:23 AM, David B. John <djohn@archdiocese-no.org>
wrote:

>
> On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:23 -0500, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>
> The whole top-posting vs. bottom-posting deal is a relic...
>
>
> Just do both.
>
>
<rant>

For me, it boils down to readability of an email thread. If there is no
chance of an email thread turning into a long bit of text, I really could
care less. However, when a thread turns into 20+ paragraphs with a half
dozen people inserting replies top, bottom, and inline it makes my blood
boil. You ever try to read an email that is multiple "pages" long with a
mixture of top, bottom, and inline posting?

There is a reason bottom/inline posting was standard long ago. It helps in
readability of threads, and follows the left-to-right, top-to-bottom flow of
natural English language text/dialog.

I'm going to start right-justifying and typing all of my responses to Dustin
backwards so that he has to read them right to left.

</rant>

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