[ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

[Tony Pursell]

I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with these
discussions. 

No sooner has the same topic on the ubuntu-users list fizzled out (after
dozens of unneeded emails) but I have got it back on the ubuntu-uk list.
Thank heavens I have a Delete key and index finger poised over it to get
rid of these emails as soon as I see the subject line.

Tony 

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 10:49 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 07/08/10 09:07, Joe O'Dell wrote:
> >> Because top posting all the time results in people LEAVING mailing
> >> lists, because they simply can't understand what's going on.   And we
> >> want to be INCLUSIVE, surely?
> >
> > No, things like this result in people leaving mailing lists.
> >
> > I have never left a mailing list because of top posting, because I don't actually see a problem with it.
> >
> > I am off to town, so will leave you to carry on this discussion that obviously won't finish for a while.
> >
> 
> I'd have to agree, as much as top posting and HTML e-mails etc can be a 
> bit annoying, I'd say flame wars can put more people off.  Saying that 
> I've seen flame wars on forums as well as mailing lists, I guess 
> sometimes you have to be a bit thick skinned and maybe count to 10 
> before replying (although I'd be the first to admit I've had a couple of 
> flame wars online in my time).
> 
> I'm not sure if maybe posting a link to the mailing list guidelines 
> every so often would help?
> 
> As it happens too, I have a Nokia e63 phone which I tend to use for 
> e-mails.  Whenever I reply to an e-mail it defaults to top posting (but 
> it does let me scroll down to the bottom of the e-mail) and I understand 
> it sends the e-mail in some strange encoding, or at least that is what 
> one of the guys on my local LUG mailing list told me.  Now I try and use 
> Mutt instead (ssh'ing to my server and running it from there).
> 
> Can't comment on the Android phones as I've never used one (although I 
> was looking at getting one next year when I upgrade my phone).
> 
> Rob
> 
> 

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