RE: OT re top-posting. was Re: Firefox and NoScript??

[Ryan Gauger]

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From: chris
Sent: ‎December‎ ‎14‎, ‎2012 ‎5‎:‎22‎ ‎PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions
Subject: Re: OT re top-posting. was Re: Firefox and NoScript??



On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 15:12 -0600, Ryan Gauger wrote:
> On 12/14/2012 02:55 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         
> >         > Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         >>
> >         >> [I'm replying without trimming because I'd like you to
> >         see your email
> >         >> as I receive it and to see what you could (and should)
> >         trim. There's
> >         >> far too much unnecessary rubbish in your replies and
> >         those of Ryan!]
> >         >>
> >         > Gmail hides all of that from me. It's not hard to get it
> >         back, but it's not
> >         > automatic either. This may be the wave of the future,
> >         whether we like it or
> >         > not. With 10 GB and climbing of free space on gmail even
> >         permanently
> >         > archiving all of the lists I belong to, my percent usage
> >         keeps dropping.
> >         
> >         
> >         It's not storage space that I'm concerned about, it's
> >         relevance and
> >         clarity. Furthermore, the Ubuntu guidelines state that we
> >         should trim
> >         our replies.
> >  
> > And there's the rub.  You (over-)trimmed my message to remove the
> > part where I said exactly the same thing (I'll do it as long as its
> > in the guidelines).  Makes me look more of a fool than I am.  Maybe
> > you didn't think it was relevant what I wrote.  I do.
> > 
> > This is an example of why I don't follow the obsessive approach to
> > trimming.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Kevin O'Gorman
> > 
> > programmer, n. an organism that transmutes caffeine into software.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> I agree with Kevin, and I don't really see the use of trimming
> messages...

Then can I assume that you are not living in a third world country using
a 28k dial up Like I am?

 

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No, I’m not, but still...


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