Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 17:06:19 -0500 From: grarpamp <grarpamp@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posting Style Message-ID: <CAD2Ti2-4D9LQzifYVMszJK8Av3wkF-dvMVh3zekPxs_hA0zy7g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20221107140413.4812551865f473cfc4a993d5@sohara.org> References: <20221106222404.ew2xhposne7aesvw@freebsd> <20221107131823.67c957cadb4bd11a4d00ba03@sohara.org> <CADqw_gLCvLaMyEXBjBw1esQLwea6sxTwm8=WVSnf6oya6ut%2BGQ@mail.gmail.com> <20221107140413.4812551865f473cfc4a993d5@sohara.org>
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> The place where top posting makes most sense is the corporate > environment where an email thread starts with two (or more) people and as > discussion goes on more people are added to weigh in with their thoughts. > Done right it looks a bit like this when it arrives in the unsuspecting > Fiona's inbox, complete with all the context she needs to see what's going > on. She just has to read it message by message from bottom to top. No, that's complete utter nonsense because now poor Fiona is also forced by others into wasting her brain cycles trying to read reverse hodgepodge from bottom to top, gearshifting reading direction with every included snippet (which are in top-down form), to get the "full context" necessary anyways for her to not make professional error or negligience in whatever her duly considered reply ends up being. All those wasted burnt brain cycles add up across the enterprise. > She just has to read it message by message from bottom to top. And this here exactly admits that that is indeed the actual horrible situation... she "has to read it" all in backwards fashion, where "just has to" is a trick phrase to get her to do something different, extra burn, unnatural. Nothing is read from bottom to top, not books, not newspapers, not flyers, not signs, not computer terminals, not spreadsheets, nothing. There is no way for bottom-up "done right" because it is fundamentally wrong opposite against how humans run language. All the "corporate environment" top-post apologists are doing is making invalid excuses for their sorry lazy writing behaviours random junk tools and random contracts instead of teaching their staff to do standard top to bottom like everything else. These "environments" also waste endless cycles futzing their source code because they don't follow codequette there either. It's garbage netiquette perpetuated by the uninitiated, the lazy careless, and the impetulent flippants upon others. Allow garbage, get garbage, and it's getting worse because of that. Computing writing is a responsibility, teach your children. Quit top-posting, html'ing, whole msg quoting, etc. And get a real MUA that lets you actually see what your disgustingly torrid mess of an email looks like for real in real 80x25 plaintext... if that doesn't wake you up and tell you what's wrong and make you fix your emails, nothing will. Cheers :)
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