Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

Here Here!

I would add that trimmers _almost always_ quote out of context, chopping
off sentences and paragraphs in such a way as to completely change the
meaning of the original poster, so they can spin a conversation away
from its central topic towards something which makes their insignificant
lives seem to have meaning...Think Glen Beck and Fox News....

On Tue, 2011-05-31 at 23:20 +0800, Lindsay Graham wrote:

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:      Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog 
> Publisher broken
> Date:         Tue, 31 May 2011 09:04:19 -0400
> From:         Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
> To:   users@libreoffice.org
>
>
> > On 2011-05-31 8:50 AM, Earl Melton wrote:
> >   
> > > I don't know about [developers], but it sure wastes the hey out of 
> > > [my] time. When you've read ten or more messages with the same
> > > subject line, you've got a fair idea what the next reply is about.
> > > Read the poster's comment, then scroll -- if necessary -- to read
> > > context, rather than scrolling for endless screens just to find the
> > > latest comment. Just my two one-hundredths oif a Federal Reserve
> > > Note's worth...
> > >     
> >
> > Please stop with the same old tired false premise/FUD...
> >
> > *No* *one* (in their right mind) advocates *untrimmed* bottom/inline
> > posting, which, I *agree*, is the *only* thing that is worse than
> > blindly top-posting. *Properly* *trimmed*, you generally don't have to
> > scroll *at* *all*.
> >
> > Regardless of which method you engage in, you should *always* trim your
> > quoted text to only the relevant portion.
> >
> >   
> This is getting to be a pretty tiresome thread, and it is obvious that 
> the main protagonists are never going to change their views, no matter 
> how right or wrong they are.
>
> However, you've hit the nail on the head, tanstaafl.  Maybe no one 
> *advocates* untrimmed bottom posting, but many people do it, and it is 
> extremely counter-productive in so many ways.  Notwithstanding all your 
> emphases above, the fact is that *very* *few* people, particularly those 
> writing in non-newsgroup environments but also many many newsgroup 
> posters, do any trimming, let alone the 'proper trimming' to which you 
> refer.  That is one, just one, of the reasons why most people top-post 
> and will continue to do so.  I get so sick of being forced to page down 
> to see the latest text that, unless it is a subject in which I am 
> particularly interested, I will often delete the message unread if the 
> latest contribution is not visible on the first screen page.
>
> This message is bottom-posted only because the last one was.
>
> Lindsay Graham
> Canberra, Australia 


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