Re: Reminder On Mailing List Rules

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 10:25 -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> Hey, Folks; >> >>     Just a gentle reminder after watching things get worse by the day: >> it is one of the rules of this and all official php.net mailing lists >> that you must not top-post. >> >>     For anyone wondering just one of the reasons why we have this rule >> in effect, tab through this thread in the archives: >> >>         >> http://www.mail-archive.com/php-general@lists.php.net/msg262390.html >> >>     See how disastrous and headache-inducing it looks?  You wouldn't >> put code together looking like spaghetti thrown at a wall and smashed >> into the carpet, especially knowing your clients and peers would see >> it, would you?  It's a very similar situation here: your every word is >> being recorded in literally hundreds of places simultaneously, >> preserved as educational and professional reference material for >> current and future developers --- and not just in the PHP programming >> language, but in computer programming in general, as theories lend >> themselves to apply to other situations as well.  Many of you take the >> time out of your busy schedules to voluntarily impart knowledge on >> people of varying degrees of skills and abilities, which is beyond >> commendable; so why not take just a couple of extra seconds to show >> pride in your participation, lead by example, and continue to set the >> bar high, rather than simply settling for the quickest Twitter-like >> "R/T" to a post?  ;-P >> >>     The ultimate goal here isn't to start a flame war (or even any >> further discussion on the subject for that matter), but to point out >> that this is a RULE of the official community here, not a PREFERENCE. >> >> >>     P.S. - Those of you who have been around for years will likely >> recall with some fondness the level of respect, participation, and >> quality of discussions this list once had; the degree of mutual >> respect and camaraderie was palpable.  If you're wondering if those >> days have really diminished into little more than granular memory, >> it's not just you --- check the following graph for some rather >> disturbing evidence: >> >>         http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.php.general >> >> -- >> </Daniel P. Brown> >> Network Infrastructure Manager >> Documentation, Webmaster Teams >> http://www.php.net/ >> > > > I always bottom post when I'm replying from my computer, but when on the > move or at work, I'm only left with my Android, and the default email > client doesn't allow reply positioning of any sort, so it's always > top-posting :( > > Does anyone know of any decent email clients for Android that allow > bottom posting that you maybe use or have had experience with? > > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > iphone has the same problem. Cutting and pasting is the only way that i have of dealing with it...and I do try to accommodate that when i can -- Bastien Cat, the other other white meat