On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Carlos just had to get this off his chest:
The 02.10.12 at 20:20, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It is now time to take a stand. Top-posting, that is, posting ones reply above the quoted text, is a symbol of darkness. It represents evil. To knowingly violate the traditional standard of internet decorum is to willingly partake in the darkness. I therefore must declare that, heretofore, all who top-post with full knowledge of the above recounted history will be declared 'Windoze Users' and shall be shunned by all who honor the good and noble traditions which created the Internet.
I'm sorry to disagree. For example, pine, which is not a windoze program, by default "top-posts".
No it doesn't. It places the cursor on top of the quoted text, but that's what Mutt and other MUA's and newsreaders let the editor do aswell. That is *not* so you can start typing at that point, it is done, so that you can start trimming off irrelevant text from that point down. Is it really that hard to do? Delete text to a piece of quoted text where you want to reply to, type your response, delete text down to the next piece of text you want to reply to etc. Ignoring the relevant RFC1855 in mailing lists and usenet posts is just plain rude and totally disrespectful of the people the you might want to get help from. For me it is very simple: topposter and bulkquoters will be ignored, period. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 8 24N , 4 32 40E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel 2.4.16-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.