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Re: Top posting (a different point of view)



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On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 02:17:48 PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I don't know if anyone has noticed that I don't top post. (Actually, I might 
> -- if I'm responding with a quick "Thank you," I may put it at the top.  If a 
> post solves the problem, I might say, in one line, 'That does the job.'  

While I can perhaps understand posting a "That does the job" message for
archival purposes. I really don't understand why anyone would send a
post containing "thank you," "I agree," 'no," "yes," Etc. to a list of
thousands. These one-liners contribute nothing but usually have a large
block of post following them wasting space and time. I'm not saying you
shouldn't be thankful, agreeable or whatever, but does the world need to
read it.

[snip]

> In other words, while I don't top post, I see no reason to be critical of 
> those who do, and I certainly see no reason for the violent reactions to 
> those who are open minded enough to not judge top posters.

Yehaw! We've had our Hitler reference, now we're goint to get
philisophical. Next will come a few dozen messages about ending this
"horible" off topic thread. Isn't debian-user fun.

- -- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org
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