Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 15:49:21 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Steve Lindemann <steve at marmot.org> wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
>
> > Top posting is universally despised among Linux and Usenet users for
> > years and doing so is the mark of a newbie user who comes from a
> > Windows-centric background, where such things are condoned like having
> > drive letters instead of names.
> >
>
>  I've been trying to explain to one of my windoze centric co-workers why top
> posting is not appropriate and couldn't find the right words.  Thank you!
> List ettiquete has always been a contentious issue, right from the beginning
> when we etched our missives using rock tablets (I vaguely remember it 8^)
> but I've always read from left to right and top to bottom and it's hard, for
> me anyway, to go at it backwards.


For whatever reason, outlook users seem handicapped when it comes to
bottom posting. I have bottom posted a few times in replies to them
and they have simply not seen the message


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