Re: Posting etiquette (Was Re: SysEx banks? - Errata)
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On 9/7/22 9:28 AM, Andrew S wrote: > I used to religiously quote and post at the bottom (avoid top posting). But then landed in a corporate environment where all of the (hundreds) of my coworkers had **absolutely no clue** about bottom posting, and had no notion of "top posting" and why that's a bad thing. I've "tilted at the windmill" of top-posting for 30 years. It's hopeless. Even repeated lectures to my extremely intelligent and educated (but non-technical) friends has little effect because they've been so brainwashed by the horror that is Microsoft Outlook. They nod their heads in understanding, interleave for one or two emails, and then slip back into old habits. Back in the Usenet newsgroup era, when bandwidth at the kilobyte level was actually significant, insufficiently trimmed replies would bring scathing castigation raining down upon the offending poster. At least until the combined blows of "Eternal September" and Canter/Siegel began the decades-long agonizing death of the newsgroup system. Before that the only thing to worry about was self referential computer nerd meta-humor like the alt.quote-me (the "self-archiving" newsgroup where all posts were encouraged to bottom-post all previous ones) and alt.me-too (the only allowed reply was, "Me too!") (the canonical response to the canonical Usenet question, "Where can I find some good porn FTP servers?") newsgroups. Ah, the good old days. Maybe Rosegarden-user and -devel can be bastions of hope in this otherwise bleak netiquette landscape. -- MARK markrubn-/[email protected] https://sourceforge.net/u/thanks4opensrc/rosegarden/ci/thanks4opensrc_devel/tree/