<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 April 2012 22:02, Phill Whiteside <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PhillW@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">PhillW@ubuntu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi Lance,<br><br>I'm just happy when people reply. I Hit the "Reply To ALL" button. So, Lord alone knows where mine end up! We know that there is no cure for you, but studies to strongly point to that keeping your mental faculties engaged does slow the progress down. Here's to hoping you're still able to be with us for a long while to come yet. Apart from your knowledge and patience, your humour and wise words are certainly appreciated by myself.<br>
<br>Kindest regards,<br><br>Phill.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 28 April 2012 16:23, Lance <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lbsolost@yahoo.com" target="_blank">lbsolost@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>I want to clarify a couple of things. In late 2001/early 2002, at the age of 51, I was diagnosed with Meningeal carcinomatosis<span style="font-weight:bold"> </span>and I was given no more than 60 days to live. Luckily that was a mis-diagnosis, the correct diagnosis was
Meningoencephalitis (unknown etiology, although quite likely West Nile virus) so I'm still alive and kicking ;^)</p><p><br></p><p>After undergoing many years of treatment and therapy I managed to overcome many of the obstacles, it truly seems that the body (even the brain) will heal with patience and the proper therapy. My neurologist says that the brain actually develops new "pathways" to basically create "work-arounds" for the damaged part(s) of the brain.</p>
<p><br></p><p>NOTE: certainly not the words he used, just my translation ;^)</p><p><br></p><p>Anyway, one of the lasting implications was mild neurocognitive disorder but beginning in late 2007 I heard about the WalMart $200 gOS system and I remembered playing with Lindows just before I got sick, so I decided to start a new hobby. Previously my hobby had been restoring old cars, but that was no longer a viable option.</p>
<p><br></p><p>So gOS led me to Ubuntu Gutsy and
voilą, I found a new hobby that helped me in many ways, but the cognitive deficiencies have persisted to some degree. In the past year or so I've noticed some obvious decline so I had a new neuro-psych exam. After three days of testing I now know that I've graduated from mild neurocognitive disorder to dementia!</p>
<p><br></p><p>Specifically I'm having trouble learning anything new, even very simple things, and my memory has gone from just poor to almost horrible. I try to keep things organized but I'll be darned if I can remember exactly how I bookmarked something important. But I can navigate Ubuntu forums just great!</p>
<p><br></p><p>IMHO the Ubuntu forums are the best thing since sliced bread. Any fool, even me, can easily navigate the forums. And it's easy to find your old posts/threads so having someone say, "This list is getting to be as useless as the forums with people top posting", really puts a burr under my saddle :^(</p>
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doing my best, and don't get me wrong, I know that Lubuntu will be fine if I drop off the face of the earth tomorrow, but does it really matter that much if I top or bottom post?</p><p><br></p><p>One of my problems with bottom posting is that I can't for the life of me figure out how to do bullet points in my Yahoo mail. I know I could spend the time to learn or change email clients, but is it more important than any of these issues:</p>
<p><br></p><p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11882333&postcount=518" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11882333&postcount=518</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1959675" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1959675</a></p>
<p><br></p><p><a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370" target="_blank">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1966370</a></p><p><br></p><p>Yesterday I had no problem with pulling up info about the Wubi changes and I posted it here. I knew about that from participating at the forums.</p>
<p><br></p><p>I knew to tell Julien about Xubuntu reverting to the non-pae kernel because of the forums.</p><p><br></p><p>Need I go on? IMHO the
forums are far from "useless" and it does make me angry to have them referred to in that manner.</p><p><br></p><p>Additionally Ali has done a lot of good for us with his one stop thread and other threads in Ubuntu + 1!</p>
<p><br></p><p>Can't we all just get along? Is it really that painful if some of us top reply?</p><span><font color="#888888"><p><br></p><p>Lance<br></p><div>
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<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Top posting is discouraged in all Ubuntu mailing lists as it can make conversations very difficult to read. While it may not be immediately obvious, if you look a little deeper you're actually making it more difficult for new people to follow conversations and join in. If you want to read up on all the whys there are hundreds of websites with intricate details on what is top posting and why it's not preferential. One of the easier ones to read that I found in a few seconds on google is - <a href="http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html">http://www.idallen.com/topposting.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Most of the time it's just about setting up your mail client to work this way. Or worst case, you can just scroll to the bottom of an input window and start typing. This few seconds of extra effort really make a difference to the readability of posts. I have to admit when conversations get more than one or two emails long and they're all top posting I just archive without reading almost all the time.</div>
<div><br></div><div>And of course there is the good old favourite:</div><div><br></div><div>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.</div><div>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?</div><div>
A: Top-posting.</div><div>Q: What is he most annoying thing in e-mail?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)<br><a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris</a><br>