top posting (was Audio/Video Problems)

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 05 January 2013 12:23:28 theuteck at gmail.com did opine:
Message additions Copyright Saturday 05 January 2013 by Gene Heskett

> Sorry to see you go Leslie, and over such a trivial and childish reason
> at that.
> Someday people on the kubuntu mail list will realize that Kmail has no
> problem displaying the relevant part of new posts irregardless of top
> or bottom post, and I find that top posting a more natural and
> intuitive way to do things since the new response show up in in the
> message preview.
> 
> Frown all you want, I don't care.

Childish? Sorry, theuteck at gmail.com, this post is exactly that.  I assume 
Leslie came here for help, and Myriam was nice enough in describing the 
preferred posting format, something /my/ kmail does automatically.

Leslie's response is that of a long term windows user who like me is a bit 
stuck in her ways because no windows application ever actively gave her a 
choice.  FWIW Leslie I have 5 years on you.  But it doesn't bother me a bit 
to stand on the up-arrow key and put the cursor where I want to type.

But it bothers the hell out of me that you, theuteck at gmail.com, come back 
with an obviously broken kmail configuration that can't even properly quote 
the message you reply to, top post and indicate you are fresh out of care.  
Who died & made /you/ God?  Go away, this list doesn't need you.
 
> On Saturday, January 05, 2013 11:11:22 AM Leslie Anne Chatterton wrote:
> 
> Myriam S. W wrote
> 
> >> If bottom posting is the rule here I can change.
> >
> >Yes please do. JFYI: Top posting is frowned upon pretty >much
> >everywhere in mailing lists, that "ubuntulinux" group is a >very rare
> >exception. Top posting totally breaks the natural reading >flow and it
> >makes following threads absolutely dreadful.
> >
> >>--
> >>
> >> Please don't send me proprietary file formats,
> >> use ISO standard ODF instead (ISO/IEC 26300)
> 
> Now that I understand the rules you are operating under I can see this
> group is not for me. I'm just a 73 year old grannie trying to keep
> mentally active after a career in teaching Computer Tech. Reformatting
> this message to conform to your formal standards takes an amazing
> amount of time and effort and I'm not interested in doing it.
> For your information: I've belonged to many online groups for 15 years,
> including several Tech groups, though mostly general interest types.
> I've moderated about five over the years and owned three more. I've had
> almost no complaints. I do this for fun, as Linus Torvalds says, its
> "Just for fun", and pleasure. It seems this group is way too serious
> for me.
> Please don't reply to this. Get on with the purpose of the group. I
> don't want to interrupt the flow of the useful discussion here so I
> won't post again. Best wishes,
> Leslie Anne Chatterton B.Sc., B.D.


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