[Mailman-Users] I'd prefer clients had collapsing features, not top-post; do away with mailing list digests

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Apr 4 18:36:36 CEST 2015


On Sat, Apr 04, 2015 at 11:26:34AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 4/3/2015 7:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 08:09:12PM -0700, David Benfell wrote:
> >> with top-posters subject to flaming. But  
> >> outside that world, I find top-posting to be the norm. I agree with  
> >> the logic of bottom-posting, because it is--well--logical, but cannot  
> >> hope to prevail.
> 
> > Perhaps you mean interleaved or inline posting, as I've done here?
> 
> As I said earlier, this is what 99.999% of all people who say
> 'bottom-posting' mean,

Did you know that 99.999% of all people who say "99.999% of all people" 
are just plucking that number out of thin air?


> and to say otherwise is either just someone being
> pedantic, foolish, ignorant, or (more often imnsho) it is an outright
> trollish comment to make themselves feel better about being a lazy
> top-poster.

And which am I? You can pick more than one if you like.


-- 
Steve


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