Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[G T Smith <grahamsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Linda Walsh wrote:
> Peter Nikolic wrote:
> > Top posting is exactly what you have just done   ... post your comment ABOVE 
> >  
> > which makes it hard to follow the  flow of the article.
> ---
> Please don't go on about putting the most recent information first.
>
> Those who have read previous emails have no problem following the flow
> and seeing it repeated ad infinitum/ad nauseum, is just mind numbing.
>
> Besides...you are forcing people with disabilities to work harder -- think
> of blind people having to read through scads of repeated text until they get
> to the new content.  

<other nonsense deleted>

Here we go again! (though it has been a while since the last time this
list went through this loop). There is always someone kicks this thing
off.. but the arguments given above are among the silliest I have seen
for a long time.


> BTW, I 'bottom' posted, because in this case, it made 'sense'.  I responded 
> to a short quote of what you said, but when people included pages of previous 
> text, and add a few lines at the bottom, they should be forced to listen to 
> elevator music for days on end.
> linda
>  


BTW Would be rather nice if you at least keep your text formatted
consistently. A line length >80 is *not* friendly, and the iffy
formatting is creating the situation where TBird is generating
occasional very long lines in quoting your message and with apologies to
others I am damned if I am going to edit the original text to get the
reply to look reasonable on this occasion. Might be worth learning how
to use your mail client and consider the benefits of consistent
formatting before commenting about the current agreed practices on a
mailing list.....


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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone.
My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Bjarne Stroustrup
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