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

On 06/26/08 16:13, Chris Jones wrote:
> So basically you're saying that you're still stuck back in 1996, while
> most of us have progressed 12 years in the future to 2008. :P

I don't consider "reading top to bottom" to be Stuck In The Past,
and definitely don't consider reading "bottom to top" to be
considered Progress.

> The
> thing is, when an email thread goes on, I don't need to be reminded what
> I wrote 5 minutes ago by reading through 5 pages of nested quotes. Show
> me the meat and potatoes of the message, and I'm on my way. Most email
> clients these days put everything at the top, and if 5% of the people

95% top-post because Outlook (and now Gmail) top-posts.

> out there use something that puts it at the bottom, who are they to
> complain? Did they ever consider that the other 95% of the people in
> the world get really aggravated having to scroll down to read their
> message? :)

Putting comments near the verbiage that you want to comment on is
only rational. Otherwise, when it's all glommed at the top of the
message, it's extremely difficult to know "which part of what" you
are referring to.

It's for a very similar reason that my children's teachers want book
(and other) reports double-spaced.

> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net
> <mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net>> wrote:
>
> On 06/26/08 14:54, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > Geez dude, I think you're taking things a little person here.. :)
>
> This guy says I'm stuck using Pine, when I've been using Nutscrape
> (a bottom-posting GUI MUA) or it's descendants since 1996.
>
> "We" were "winning" the top-/mid-posting "war" on debian-user until
> gmail came out. Now a third of the people on the list are
> top-posting. It makes long threads really difficult to follow.
>
> > --
> > Dustin Puryear
> > President and Sr. Consultant
> > Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> > 225-706-8414 x112
> > http://www.puryear-it.com
> >
> > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
> > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/
> >
> >
> > Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 06/26/08 11:17, techmaster@gmail.com
> <mailto:techmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I think it all boils down to whether you're using a modern gui
> >>> based email client, or if you're still stuck on using pine.
> >>
> >> How stunningly little you appear to know.
> >>
> >>> "It's making a comeback, man!". It's the whole digital vs analog
> >>> argument all over again.

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas.  In lighter news, the city of New New
York is doomed."
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