[mythtvnz] IR USB

[Steve Hodge]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Barry Clearwater <barryc at bcsystems.co.nz>wrote:

> 2009/8/1 Steve Hodge <stevehodge at gmail.com>
>
>> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:46 AM, Wade Maxfield <mythtvnz at hotblack.co.nz>wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/08/09 11:31 AM, Barry Clearwater wrote:
>>> > {risking a flame war!!}Sorry Nick, but I really don't understand the
>>> fuss
>>> > about top bottom or middle posting!{/risk} Is it a mail client problem?
>>>
>>>
>>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>>
>>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
>>>
>>
>> This argument against top posting doesn't seem to be very effective - if
>> people saw this as a problem they'd already be bottom posting. I think the
>> reason top posting s<snip>
>>
>> The best reason not to top post (IMHO) is that top posting makes it hard
>> on people getting the digest version of the list. Those people don't get the
>> list nicely threaded so it helps them a lot to get nicely trimmed messages
>> with context at the top.
>>
>> That particular reason I can understand. Unfortunately as I've been using
> gmail of late which shrinks all the previous emails to a little purple "-
> Show quoted text -"  and then displays all previous messages stacked above
> in threaded mode, I've not understood how uncomfortable it could be for
> another user and clearly other email clients. I must confess however, I've
> googled for a page that indicates preferred styles for this mailing list and
> come up with only other posts. Plain text versions of the mail with > and
> >>>> are horrible to read though so sorry for those who have suffered. So
> where is this etiquette page?
>

I don't know about an actual page, but Nick (who runs the list)  mentions
"no top posting" in this message:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/mythtvnz/389201#389201

Cheers,
Steve
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