From: KHMan <kei...@gm...> - 2012-02-04 19:50:03
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On 2/5/2012 12:50 AM, Keith Marshall wrote: > On 04/02/12 15:13, KHMan wrote: >> On 2/4/2012 10:25 PM, Keith Marshall wrote: >>> On 04/02/12 11:41, Teemu Nätkinniemi wrote: >>>> When using Thunderbird you can set it to automatically start at the end >>>> of the quote. Go to Tools -> Account Settings -> (your account name) -> >>>> Composition& Addressing -> Check Automatically quote the original >>>> message when replying and select "start my reply below the quote" from >>>> the drop down list. >>> >>> I consider this to be every bit as unacceptable as top-posting. >> >> Please instead try to see Teemu's post as a suggestion to help >[snip] >> Look at the single paragraph again: >> it's just a neutrally worded tip. There was absolutely no need to >> find fault in it. > > I didn't. Perhaps you should read the full context of my reply, and my > preceding message which prompted Teemu's, again. I know you did reply and I have browsed your reply, and I have also checked gmane again. Teemu's context was just that one para of your reply, properly snipped too -- changing the TB option would be a small typing optimization. With the option, for short posts, we just click once and type away. Now, since there is no issue with the rest of your posting, which was properly snipped out, it is implied that Teemu agrees with editing, sniping, in-context and so on. Assuming he is advocating something like "adding a reply at the end of a long posting" would be incorrect. Looked like a harmless tip, a procedural tweak that is in complete agreement with the rest of your posting. So I found the aggression in "every bit as unacceptable" very surprising and pretty worrying. Yet Teemu's tip was sincerely offered and it may help change the habits of some of us on the list. I for one have forgotten having changed the option on TB years ago. It's a small step. No one can appear *poof!* with fully-formed Unix culture. I call it an example of community participation, and it did not deserve a put-down. A diversity of community participation is a healthy community, and different people have different approaches. But when we make people wary and uncomfortable about getting into our line of fire, people would then prefer to lurk and leech rather than offer their hand to help. For example, I can see that no one else is daring to chime in on this. >> [snip snip snip] -- Cheers, Kein-Hong Man (esq.) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |