TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Pastor JW]

On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Ed Greshko wrote:
> Peter Garrett wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:04:15 -0500
> >
> > "Steve T" <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> And KDE is better than Gnome and Apple is better than M$ and
> >> Republicans are better than Democrats and top posting is better than
> >> bottom posting.  Are there any other completely subjective opinions
> >> that I missed?
> >
> > Let's just ignore the issue of whether top or bottom posting is "better"
> > :)
>
> You can't because....
>
> > The point is this: the convention on this list, and every other Linux
> > list I have ever been subscribed to, is to bottom-post or interpolate
> > when answering.
>
> "Convention" does take into account what the majority has determined is
> "better".  I mean, it makes no sense to adopt a convention that has been
> determined to be inferior...would it?

Well it doesn't make sense, however it happens all the time!  Some of the 
proved inferior product standouts are 8-Track, VHS, DVD, MicroSoft, NTSC, and 
now of course BluRay!




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