Re: The charter for this newsgroup

Mark Townsend wrote:

> I use the keyboard and not the
>mouse to read posts, and I will not typically not go to the mouse to
>read these types of replies, so they get skipped.

That strikes me as odd, doesn't the keyboard have a page down key? When I use command line readers, I just hit the space bar. I find I'm able to read a lot more than the Google interface doing that. So what reader are you using on what platform?

By-the-by, reading oracle-l as a digest shows how really bad top-posting can be.

Barry wrote:

>How about we revise the charter to exclude the clause on top posting.

??? what clause on top posting?

Ed:

Good one! I don't even like to see revision history comments in code top posted, though I can understand why managers would want to see the recent changes first. I have some code that has the worst of both worlds: when the code went through a major upgrade, some of the original comments were encapsulated in the upgrade comments, winding up with bottom and top posting intermixed. That's hard to read!

jg

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