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Re: [Full-disclosure] Return of the Phrack High Council



I would only add that if EVERYBODY bottom-posted on a particular forum and ALWAYS snipped unnecessary prior posts...then I would do the same...just out of courtesy for established protocol.

Just as I have my own coding conventions which I use for my own code, yet if I'm editing another owner's source I will follow their established conventions...just to not break continuity...and of course not to be a jerk.


mike

Kyle Lutze wrote:
yeah, that was a slight accident, the first one I composed only went to him since I didn't hit reply-all, and didn't fully edit the second one. :/

ok, so I'm a bit of a hypocrite sometimes too. Also, I didn't mean to say wikipedia's definition was a way to go, I was just using that to show my reason without having to put it all in

Kyle

Mike Klein wrote:
And yet you quoted netdev's entire email for no good reason whatsoever...another breach of supposed netiquette.

Top vs. bottom posting is a bunch of crap. With 20 years experience in computing I have yet to see consensus on this issue....regardless of wikipedia definition.

I subscribe to numerous mail lists/etc. and far prefer top posts...less scrolling to bottom too see what is being said. If people snipped orig post than bottom posting would <possibly> be preferrable...but quite often this isn't the case...and very often extremely verbose crap like images/etc. (dammit' mom get with the program) is often left in as well.

mike klein

Kyle Lutze wrote:

now, can't you post correctly in a mailing list? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/top_posting I mean come on, a computer guru not knowing about that?
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