On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:43:37AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > Alex Samad <alex@samad.com.au>: > > > > All I am trying to point out is for a normal user ( ie somebody who > > is subscribed to the list), when a thread starts, you read them in > > date/time order as them come in, why seems illogical to have to > > scroll through stuff that you have just read. The exception is of > > course when you start a thread in the middle. > > And another is when you land on the same post in the archives, or > groups.google.com and you have to try to make sense of a mish-mash of > reply styles. agreed and with middle posting, there is no guarantee that you will get the whole gist of it either. It not that I am against middle posting or bottom posting nor am i against top posting, each in the right situation has merit In the interest of getting back to debian-user, I will make this my last post on this > > > I believe (maybe wrongly ) that this mailing list is a non > > top-posting list, I try and conform. > > You're correct. List policy prefers "snip irrelevancies and bottom > post." > > > if I have offended my appologies > > Not here. Have fun. > > > -- > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. > (*) http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html Linux Counter #80292 > - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- "The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas." - George W. Bush 06/16/2000 NPR
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