On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 11:26:10AM -0400, cyg Simple wrote: > On 8/26/2017 2:04 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > cyg Simple wrote: > >> On 8/24/2017 8:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote: > >> > >>> If you can't trim your quoted text, then please stop burying the > >>> new stuff on the bottom. > >>> > >> > >> Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I see from a google > >> search that you've had problems with style in the past even on this list. > >> > > Maybe I'm one of the few who has RSI and gets irritated by having > > to go through extra steps to skip large walls of text. > > I don't know what RSI is. I might guess it to be Residual Self Image or > Remotely Sensed Imagery. ;p
RSI == Repetitive Strain Injury. It's a real medical condition. > > >> List etiquette frowns on both bottom and top posting and warrants to > >> interleaving the replies. > >> > > --- > > I know of no list where that is commonly practiced. > > Every list including this one since before you began using email lists. > Interleaving began back in the days before the RFC for email standards > was created. The fact that people misuse quoting doesn't change the > etiquette for using interleaving which most open source lists state to use. > > >> Well all and good but you hijacked a thread to bring home a point which > >> is in itself just wrong. > >> > > To selectively quote things in your reply to make your point is the > > problem here, since I replied to the original subject, extensively. > > It was you who deleted the "on-topic" part of the message to make > > your point. > > > > No, you changed it, the client I use elided the (was: ...) portion since > it was no longer the subject to which I was responding. And my context > to you did not include any of the original message. > > -- > cyg Simple > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
