Re: Debian, Iceweasle, Firefox!
On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:42, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> >> Please quit top posting.
> >
> > Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which
> > surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some way
> > toward making the top-posting "debate" -- which is surely
> > the least interesting debate in the history of computing --
> > go away:
> >
> > http://laniels.org/scripts/top_post_fixer.pl.txt
> >
> > This will tag all the lines in a given message by whether
> > they're raw line or one containing a quote. It's primitive,
> > but hopefully it's enough of a start that someone can expand
> > upon it and end the spectacularly stupid debate.
>
> Why should the reader have to fix spectacularly broken presentation
> on behalf of the writer? If they want an audience, they should do it
> right the first time. It's not like this is anything new, RFC1855 is
> 12 years old now. People should just not learn from Outlook and
> expect it to be the way the Internet works.
Oh, and everyone that uses e-mail spends their time reading every RFC
out there.
Remember you're always going to be dealing with newbies -- at least
until kids grow up writing e-mail the right way, and it'll take a while
for that to happen.
Face it: Usenet isn't the only place where September is eternal.
Hal
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