Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:59:59 +0200 From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad Message-ID: <p0600207fbd589b4c8ace@[10.0.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <20040830051243.GA976@online.fr> References: <41248C2F.8020401@quadspeed.com> <417F9703-F1DC-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <007001c485ec$9d3bbb10$3300a8c0@verizon.net> <9FDC1E28-F1E2-11D8-AE79-000393BB56F2@HiWAAY.net> <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr> <20040822015558.GO92256@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040827114038.GA2453@online.fr> <p06002068bd54de2a1bf6@[10.0.1.3]> <1093789942.4131e8f6b486a@imp1-q.free.fr> <p06002079bd57bed84da1@[10.0.1.3]> <20040830051243.GA976@online.fr>
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At 10:42 AM +0530 2004-08-30, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> If you want to go about correcting the world's email habits, you
> should (a) make sure that the problem you're seeing is clearly
> referenced in the web page you link to, (b) if that's not the case,
> say what the problem is.
Again, we get back to the problem of it being impossible to
enumerate all the potential permutations and combinations of various
different things that people might do wrong in formatting a message.
If you disagree, then I would invite you to go individually count
all the atoms in the universe. When you're done, then count all the
atoms that you missed.
It is possible to describe a number of common message formatting
problems on a web page, and when you discover any kind of formatting
problem in a message that you are replying to, you can refer people
to that page.
If you think you can do better, I would encourage you to do so --
lead by example. Once you have a known working implementation that
is superior, show us what you did and how, and we can integrate that
with our own methods. You might even wind up teaching Greg a thing
or three.
Until/unless you can do that, I don't think you're likely to gain
much traction here.
--
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