On Sunday 28 January 2007 18:42, Paul Johnson wrote: > Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> Please quit top posting. > > > > Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which > > surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some way > > toward making the top-posting "debate" -- which is surely > > the least interesting debate in the history of computing -- > > go away: > > > > http://laniels.org/scripts/top_post_fixer.pl.txt > > > > This will tag all the lines in a given message by whether > > they're raw line or one containing a quote. It's primitive, > > but hopefully it's enough of a start that someone can expand > > upon it and end the spectacularly stupid debate. > > Why should the reader have to fix spectacularly broken presentation > on behalf of the writer? If they want an audience, they should do it > right the first time. It's not like this is anything new, RFC1855 is > 12 years old now. People should just not learn from Outlook and > expect it to be the way the Internet works.
Oh, and everyone that uses e-mail spends their time reading every RFC out there. Remember you're always going to be dealing with newbies -- at least until kids grow up writing e-mail the right way, and it'll take a while for that to happen. Face it: Usenet isn't the only place where September is eternal. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
