<OT> yet more Gmail invites

[Matthew Carpenter]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1



A. Khattri wrote:
| On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
|
|
|>Isn't it wonderful how every side keeps making opinion statements as
if they
|>were self-evident truths?
|
|
| Usually rules are arrived at by general consensus over a period of time.
| Top-posting is frowned upon because that is the general consensus.
|
|
While I don't want to be subversive and will live by the rules of the
list to the best of my knowledge, when was this consensus achieved?
Have the technologies taken great strides since then and are they widely
used and available?

I appreciate that some technologies are just so ingrained in some of us,
eg. I use VI whenever possible.  But sometimes the consensus is reached
in different times, such as when BBSes or Dialup Internet was the
standard for everyone.  While I don't want to disgrace text-MUAs which
allow beter flexibility on local, Thunderbird, Evolution, and Sylpheed
excel in these types of areas.  And what is the majority of the populus
using and what do we collectively think?

I do not wish to necessarily change things.  These traditions are
comfortable and memorable.  Just to recognize that sometimes things
*should* change and don't.

Again, I don't care enough about these things to hinder relations or
break the rules.  My tendencies are to top-post as I almost did this
time.  It comes from using Lotus Notes too long.  :)
- --
Matthew Carpenter
matt at eisgr.com                          http://www.eisgr.com/

Enterprise Information Systems
* Network Server Appliances
* Security Consulting, Incident Handling & Forensics
* Network Consulting, Integration & Support
* Web Integration and E-Business
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFCHQoXso9lqh4MragRAlUFAKCCCgLMcmjmN6XgukqUIx5/BJRJ3QCbBcjo
kRvGUVD3y4RXQgFvnrfpS4o=
=fHux
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----