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Message-ID: <4388AF9D.4090208@ebay.com>
Date: Sat Nov 26 18:55:32 2005
From: mkleinpeter at ebay.com (Mike Klein)
Subject: Return of the Phrack High Council
I would only add that if EVERYBODY bottom-posted on a particular forum
and ALWAYS snipped unnecessary prior posts...then I would do the
same...just out of courtesy for established protocol.
Just as I have my own coding conventions which I use for my own code,
yet if I'm editing another owner's source I will follow their
established conventions...just to not break continuity...and of course
not to be a jerk.
mike
Kyle Lutze wrote:
> yeah, that was a slight accident, the first one I composed only went
> to him since I didn't hit reply-all, and didn't fully edit the second
> one. :/
>
> ok, so I'm a bit of a hypocrite sometimes too. Also, I didn't mean to
> say wikipedia's definition was a way to go, I was just using that to
> show my reason without having to put it all in
>
> Kyle
>
> Mike Klein wrote:
>> And yet you quoted netdev's entire email for no good reason
>> whatsoever...another breach of supposed netiquette.
>>
>> Top vs. bottom posting is a bunch of crap. With 20 years experience
>> in computing I have yet to see consensus on this issue....regardless
>> of wikipedia definition.
>>
>> I subscribe to numerous mail lists/etc. and far prefer top
>> posts...less scrolling to bottom too see what is being said. If
>> people snipped orig post than bottom posting would <possibly> be
>> preferrable...but quite often this isn't the case...and very often
>> extremely verbose crap like images/etc. (dammit' mom get with the
>> program) is often left in as well.
>>
>> mike klein
>>
>> Kyle Lutze wrote:
>>
>>> now, can't you post correctly in a mailing list?
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/top_posting I mean come on, a computer
>>> guru not knowing about that?
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