[GTALUG] Recommendation for a media center front end?

[Howard Gibson]

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 On Sun 08/09/24  2:01 PM , Steve Litt via talk talk at gtalug.org sent:
 D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk said on Sun, 8 Sep 2024 01:55:12 -0400
(EDT)
 >I hate top posting.  I recommend only quoting what's relevant to
your 
 >message.  And quoting in chronological order.  Putting the burden
on
 >the reader isn't a good idea in a mailing list (there are more
readers
 >than writers).
 Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Top posting with full quoted text retention is for CYA in business
 situations. Mailing lists are a collaborative mind meld like would
be
 conducted around a table if we were in person. Around a table
replies
 certainly don't come before earlier statements, and if you had to
 rehash every single bit of the conversation just to make an
additional
 point, progress would be impeded by more than an order of magnitude.
 SteveT
     I find it difficult to not top post at the moment because
Primus' service 
 is messed up and their POP mail is not working.  I am accessing it
through 
 webmail.  The webmail puts my signature at the top of the screen,
with the 
 quote down below.  There is no command that shortens lines.  I
suspect I 
 am in rich text (HTML?) mode whether I like it or not. Sending
emails in a 
 professional association, I caught crap for bottom posting.  The
other people 
 were just not used to it.  This may be part of Microsoft's
determination to 
 change user interfaces in all their applications.   
     Another thing I cannot do with Primus webmail is show email
chains.  
 Microsoft Outlook does display that.  
     The problem with bottom posting is that a lot of people do not
delete 
 the lines they are not replying to.  You scroll down to read the
original 
 message, the first reply, the second reply, the third reply, and so
on down 
 to some literary gem like "fuck you asshole", probably spelled
wrong.   
 There's fifteen minutes of your life you will not be getting back. 
 -- 
 Howard Gibson 
 hgibson at eol.ca 
 http://home.eol.ca/~hgibson 
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