Top posting

[Mauro Souza]

Once every a couple months, the "top posting versus bottom posting holy
wars" erupt. There is no victory, there are no prevailing parties, there is
no peace, no truce.
No matter how much time passes, we continue waging this endless war. We
have since long lost track of how much hard disks got filled with the
resulting messages of this war, and it keeps going and going.
We are all stuck on our confirmation bias. We obviously have the simple and
absolute truth that we are on the right side, and we just cannot understand
why the opposing side cannot see the beauty, simplicity and correctness of
our view. Looks like them are stuck on their biases too.


And the war keeps going, and going, and going...

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.


2013/5/28 Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>

> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Stewart C. Russell <scruss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
>> Don't forget Postel's Law, as enshrined in RFC1122: “Be liberal in what
>> you accept, and conservative in what you send”.
>>
>
> Obviously not being followed, in this case.
>
> Following that principle would lead to people tending to being accepting
> of HTML-based mail (as that's the "liberal" part), and of them being loath
> to submit it, as it is most definitely NOT the "conservative" thing to send.
>
> In effect, what you're describing indicates that "current industry
> practice" is utterly dismissive of Postel's Law.
> --
> When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the
> question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://gtalug.org/pipermail/legacy/attachments/20130528/519b5737/attachment.html>