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

[jedi]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 06:11:15PM +0000, Charles Mason wrote:
> 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.

     Some people and companies like to come along and ignore convention
and previously established standards. A lot of top posting can be traced
to applications written by such companies (that don't really need to be
named because we all already know who they are).

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