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Personnaly, I'm madder at people using only lower case (in usual written Human languages, I don't mind it in C (but yes in C strings containing Human language))

Personnaly, I'm madder at people using only lower case (in usual written Human languages, I don't mind it in C (but yes in C strings containing Human language)). Perhaps that's because I started computing with terminals and teletypes that only had upper case characters, and even made an incursion with punch cards and line printers having too only upper case characters. :-) It's funny that this item of netiquete, where once mixed case was possible, it was considered that upper case was "shouting" spread so well, while other parts, that I would consider much more important, like avoiding top-posting hasn't. :-(

nvader 12y ago
Why is top-posting still something to avoid? It took me a while to get used to it, but at this point I consider the war to be won in favour of top-posting, due to Gmail embracing it.
- stonogo 12y ago
  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Why is top-posting still something to avoid? Gmail "embraced" it because their editor started out as a textarea and they had no choice. It's a consequence of their programming environment and not some kind of aesthetic choice they carefully considered.
  - nvader 12y ago
    With respect to emails, where the history of the correspondence is well-known to all participants, isn't it actually more convenient to have the new material up first? The chain of previous letters becomes an appendix that can be referred to if needed, but does not sit in the way of the immediate communication. I think in some ways this mimics how snail-mail correspondence works too: you always attach the new message on top, and context can go afterwards, or be referred to by correspondents. Although, the real shame is that this is a problem at all, given how easy it would be for clients to detect diffs and provide the comment in the way the user wants it.

nvader 12y ago

Why is top-posting still something to avoid? It took me a while to get used to it, but at this point I consider the war to be won in favour of top-posting, due to Gmail embracing it.

stonogo 12y ago
Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Why is top-posting still something to avoid? Gmail "embraced" it because their editor started out as a textarea and they had no choice. It's a consequence of their programming environment and not some kind of aesthetic choice they carefully considered.
- nvader 12y ago
  With respect to emails, where the history of the correspondence is well-known to all participants, isn't it actually more convenient to have the new material up first? The chain of previous letters becomes an appendix that can be referred to if needed, but does not sit in the way of the immediate communication. I think in some ways this mimics how snail-mail correspondence works too: you always attach the new message on top, and context can go afterwards, or be referred to by correspondents. Although, the real shame is that this is a problem at all, given how easy it would be for clients to detect diffs and provide the comment in the way the user wants it.