Re: [OT] Re: Top posting (a different point of view)
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 08:36:38PM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote:
> Tom Waits.
>
> On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 06:22:27PM -0500, John Carline wrote:
>
> > What a crock of snobbish BS!
> >
> > snobbish
> > adj : befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social
> > exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people
> > considered inferior [syn: {clannish}, {cliquish},
> > {clubby}, {snobby}]
> >
> >
> > Personally, I don't care where an individual posts. But, it would make
> > my reading/following of threads much easier if I didn't have to scroll
> > down to the bottom of post after post in a long string just to read the
> > one line added to the 200 I've already read.
>
> So use the tab key (or whatever the equivalent is in your client for
> skipping quoted text). You could also encourage people to delete
> irrelevant quoted text when replying.
>
> Unlike vi v. emacs or KDE v. Gnome, there's actually an RFC about this
> one. It's a dead issue. If you don't conform, people will be less
> liekly to reply to you.
Really? an RFC? Which one, and where might I find it?
-- hendrik
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