On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:52:59AM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:13:22PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 01/14/08 15:57, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 10:32:53AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On 01/14/08 10:21, Ebanutiy Ebanatik Ebanatovich wrote: > > > >>> Sorry for offtopic but I'm wondering if the cause of avoiding of top > > > >>> posting is in something technical (e.g. to help forum software to > > > >>> create weekly digests correctly) or is it a question of etiquette? > > The latter. > > > > > Rationality, because while some cultures read left->right, and > > > > others read right->left, all read top->bottom. None read bottom->top. > > > >> [flame on] > > > >> but we do read chronologically (in date order) and I for one hate having to go > > > > > > Thanks for making my point, since when does time "move" from bottom > > > to top? > > so you are advocating top posting ? > > IMHO, trying to argue this point based on "rational" or objective > reasoning, that one way is truly, obviously, and naturally "better" > than another, is fraught with hazard, since someone *will* argue with > equal validity (to them at least) that their way is better. > > In fact, it's a social convention, a matter of etiquette. The practice > varies, and some lists work the other way, but on this and many lists > the convention is to top post, trim heartily, try to get the attributions It the convention is to top post then we don't seem to be following the convention. ( I thought it was to not top post ?) > right(1), and have a good day! > > Ken > > (1) the attribution from the OP is missing in this message, I think. > -- > Ken Irving, fnkci+debianuser@uaf.edu > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. -- Bertrand Russell
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