I'm just going to say a few things here in retort :) a) I'm actually a visually impaired person. So: b) Top-posting is far easier and convenient for me. (I arely inline post - sometimes but not often anymore) c) I've never used Outlook so was never really influenced by it :) Also: Can we just get along without the long winded rambling and lovely adjectives used to describe others and their actions? I don't particularly find anyone to be lazy, ignorant, innocent or arrogant. I'm just a wee little web developer in the back corners of AU :) Who happens to enjoy CRUX! cheers James James Mills / prologic E: prologic@shortcircuit.net.au W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Fredrik Rinnestam <fredrik@rinnestam.se>wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 03:14:05PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote:
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 08:59:43PM +1000, James Mills wrote:
Hi :)
Firstly let me apologize for Walter. His tone was a little negative to say the least. (I try to make an effort myself to maintain a peaceful and civilized community for us CRUXers) (I think we all do!)
No, no, no. You're offending me, sir! Just keeding.
I could take your top-posting, James, by another example of what friendly interfaces do with people. That may offend you like happened with Jideel and you may try to explain me all your curriculum and that top-posting is your "personal preference", etc, etc. But this is a mailing list, it's not about someone in particular, those bad practices are just examples. I'm not being rude with someone in particular. And my rudeness is not an action but a reaction to the whole scenario I described. Following with the email formating example, the true is that bad practices are not someone personal preferences, they were imposed by ignorant, mobster, rude programmers (Outlook, Yahoo, Gmail) and adopted by lazy users. Translate this example to all software development and computer use along the last decades. The whole scenario is rude, destructive, disrespectful, arrogant and, what is worse, innocent. That people egocentric innocence is what makes them think the rude it's me just for criticizing it. Someone really wise (who learned from experience) should understand that my reaction is justified.
I am not negative, I am realistic. I am sure of what I see. And no, that doesn't help in life :).
By the way, Xfce is a fully featured desktop environment. That's negative.
Walter
Top posting is the correct way to post to a mailinglist, sure. But try to live with this in a corporate environment. It's impossible.
So please try to keep a friendly tone on the mailinglist and please try to not jump to judgement.
This thread is now totally off topic and quite pointless. Please let it die
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