From clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Sun Dec 18 18:34:04 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: list@krisma.oltrelinux.com Delivered-To: list@krisma.oltrelinux.com Received: from aj.catt.com (aj.catt.com [64.18.103.6]) by mail.oltrelinux.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E47311AE4D for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 18:34:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from aj.catt.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aj.catt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19EC9155FDA; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:33:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from ickx.fenrir.org.uk (mx.fenrir.org.uk [81.168.115.223]) by aj.catt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF79F155FD9 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 12:33:35 -0500 (EST) Received: from peterson.fenrir.org.uk ([10.0.0.2]) by ickx.fenrir.org.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.60 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Eo2Pd-0006Xq-Ig for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:33:33 +0000 Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 17:33:33 +0000 From: Brian Morrison To: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] [OT] Top posting is harmful. (Was: Clamd Problem.) Message-ID: <20051218173333.5bf5fd05@peterson.fenrir.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <43A582EA.5010407@gmail.com> References: <43ea8d070512170148j199f1f49i@mail.gmail.com> <43A435BA.8080206@telkom.net.id> <80D86E2B-399C-4B3F-B4C6-789EA69542A4@daleenterprise.com> <200512172314.10947.kitchen@scriptkitchen.com> <43A582EA.5010407@gmail.com> Organization: The Fool and Bladder Face-Jumping Team X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100cvs67 (GTK+ 2.6.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) X-PGP-KeyID: DE32E5C5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: clamav-users@lists.clamav.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: ClamAV users ML List-Id: ClamAV users ML List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net Errors-To: clamav-users-bounces@lists.clamav.net X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at krisma.oltrelinux.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 tagged_above=-999.0 required=6.0 tests=AWL, BAYES_50 X-Spam-Level: On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:40:26 -0500 in 43A582EA.5010407@gmail.com Joe Polk wrote: > Hey, I understand that top-posting or not-posting is really import to > some people but to go so far as to say it's harmful is a bit of a > stretch. For some it's just following the natural order of email > clients, most of which cursor the top. They place the cursor at the top to encourage the trimming of the quoted material, not so that people can just start typing merrily away without formatting their post correctly. The really bad ones also place the sig above the quoted material and make people think that they should start typing there. The 'natural order of email clients', as you put it, existed long before a certain company flooded the market with a client that exposed newcomers to these bad habits before they had learned from the old-timers the sensible way of doing things that had been around since the dawn of email. -- Brian Morrison bdm at fenrir dot org dot uk GnuPG key ID DE32E5C5 - http://wwwkeys.uk.pgp.net/pgpnet/wwwkeys.html _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html