[mythtv-users] Who is VCRAddict - and who appointed him sheriff of Mythville?

[Charles Mason]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:53 PM, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
> On Fri, November 21, 2008 6:31 am, JR henry wrote:
>> *sigh*  thats a war I lost a long time ago.  why did top posting become
>> evil, why :(
>
> Top posting isn't really inferior or immoral, although some people try to
> frame the isssue that way.  What it really is, is an issue of custom.
>
> To make an analogy, let's say you're visiting somewhere where people
> habitually walk on the left side of the sidewalk.  Maybe you prefer to
> walk on the right, but if you walk on the right there, you'll be
> constantly surprising people, bumping into them, and inconveniencing them.
>  The polite thing to do is follow the local convention and walk on the
> left.  Walking on the left isn't inherently superior to walking on the
> right, but it's the local custom.
>
> Similarly, on a list where the convention is to bottom- or inline-post,
> top-posting throws people off.  It's not that it's somehow inherently
> worse, but it's not what people are expecting.  A thread with mixed top-
> and bottom-posting is particularly hard to read, so it's polite to follow
> the same convention as everyone else.

But since so many people seem to like Top posting it strikes me the
convention is wrong or at least unfounded.

Perhaps there's a vocal minority of Bottom Posting Pursuits keep us
Top Posters down (and the majority who couldn't care less). Or perhaps
this discussion has gone on far too long. I dread to think the amount
of mail server bandwidth the age old Top Posting debate has consumed
over the years.


Charlie M