From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com>
To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: The losing battle of TOFU
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121102203805.GA14474@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC4i1z0Mepp9UXGK+s+pT6a2XhXpq_y4pk7nDnhjFC6o47bTwg@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 04:30:51PM -0400, David Eisner wrote:
>On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>Just needed to vent. Not using TOFU makes a lot of sense but I think
>>the battle is over.
>
>
>The other day I inadvertently bottom-posted to a relatively small
>mailing list of (mostly non-tech) friends. One (of the tech variety)
>responded so:
>
>"David, It's over. We lost. The world settled on doing it the wrong
>way. You did it the wrong way with us, for a decade. Remember? When
>you reply-bottom now, all you do is mess up the threading.
>
>Condolences, Andrew"
>
>He's probably right.
Rather depressing. :-)
Occasionally, I take time to laboriously correct the threading and
respond on the bottom but that's pretty silly.
I think most of the time when I do bottom posting people wonder why in
the world I'm doing that.
cgf
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-02 20:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-02 16:06 Christopher Faylor
2012-11-02 16:55 ` Adam Dinwoodie
2012-11-02 20:31 ` David Eisner
2012-11-02 20:38 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
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