[clue-tech] Top down

[mike havlicek]

Remember the "Shit for Brains" guy on the VMS line?
Unfortunately he is dead now.

I believe his name was Carl ... another MIT guy

-Mike

--- Collins Richey <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/05, Chris Tubutis <ctubutis at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> [ snips ]
> 
> > On 24 Apr, mike havlicek wrote:
> > > This policy of top down design seems kinda
> silly...
> > 
> 
> > But that's not at all the case with list-based
> e-mail where multiple,
> > unknown people and several topics & threads are
> involved. 
> > 
> > Netiquette involves more than just top-posting vs.
> bottom-posting but
> > also trimming out irrelevant & excess text
> (especially signatures and
> > extra cruft automatically added by list software).
> Quote only pertinent
> > points you are responding to.
> 
> Gee, Chris, pretty soon David will have you figured
> as the officially
> appointed "netiquette host' <grin>. Welcome to the
> club!
> 
> > 
> > For a good example, look at the Gilligan's Island
> example at
> >
> <http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/nquote.html>;
> although these
> > "rules" and this Netiquette stuff originated
> mainly in Usenet
> > newsgroups, the same concepts apply to e-mail
> lists (which are basically
> > newsgroup messages that end up in your Inbox).
> > 
> 
> Yep, pretty much the same as the other variants I
> posted. In spite of
> the fact that I broached the topic, I've found
> (across several lists
> and years) that it does little good to stress the
> appropriate way of
> doing things. Top posters are usually top posters
> "because they can,"
> and to hell with anyone who thinks differently. One
> jerk (my $.02) on
> another group always ends his posts with "Go back to
> the top; I always
> top post."
> 
> OTOH, I do get pissed from titme to time when I
> encounter mails with
> 11 lines of meaningful data and 103 lines of quoted
> trash at the
> bottom of the mail. Sigh! I'm sure the modem users
> like you don't
> appreciate this either.
> 
> -- 
>  Collins
>        Live until you die.
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