On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 16:26, Felix Miata wrote:
Kelly Fulks wrote:
On Sunday 07 March 2004 06:07, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
3) Top-posting is an extremely Microsoftish form of behavior.
Here I disagree. I tried this in KMail and in Pine and both by default set me up to top post a reply. Therefore you can't say that it is Microsoftish behavior.
You're ignoring history. Where was top posting common before M$ hijacked internet standards? Nowhere. M$ decreed that the internet should have top posting (and quoteless quotes) by making its default behavior opposite the theretofore norm. Since the countless dweebs first using the M$ mutant email generally have no clue this is not conformant to the norm, much less something they can change to conform, the internet is now scourged with Jeopardy email. KMail & Pine have apparently since decided to play copycat.
The authors of OSS are also bucking tradition and changing the norm by default. Most users, when replying to a message, simply start typing where the cursor gets set and if their mail program sets them up for top posting, that is what they will do.
Precisely the problem initiated by M$'s default behavior and now commonplace.
Going to defend top posting, and you all asked for this: "But ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee - an eight foot tall Wookiee - want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! What does that have to do with top posting and SuSE? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with top posting or SuSE! It does not make sense! Look at me, I'm a SuSE user defending top posting and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense. And so you have to remember, when you're reading this e-mail and deliberating and conjugating the Emancipation Proclamation... does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this SuSE mailing list, it does not make sense. None of this makes sense. If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must top-post! The defense rests." Can we please drop this now? Too lazy to make any filters, and really its serving no purpose. Matt