[GLLUG] Thursday's Meeting?

[Karl Schuttler]

• In Detroit, couples are not allowed to make love in an automobile
unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's
own property.

For some reason I had the impression that this was true for all of
Michigan? Maybe someone can clear this up for me. Any lawyers?

On 5/18/07, Richard Houser <rick at divinesymphony.net> wrote:
> Mike Rambo wrote:
>
> > Which inconveniences how? You have to go down to see what the reply is
> > replying to anyway.
>
> With modern email clients, you don't need to scroll all the way down
> with top posting.  That's what the threading features are for.
> Threading has been a standard feature of email clients since at least
> the late 1990s, but likely quite a bit earlier.
>
> > And you lose the capacity to make comments follow specific conversation
> > elements.
>
> In my opinion, and even the RFC that was mentioned, you should "be sure
> you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
> enough text of the original to give a context."  That's a description of
> in-line posting, not bottom posting.
>
> The problem with in-line posting is that it's not always practical to
> use.  When you have something to add that doesn't directly relate to
> something that was said previously in that thread, but is still relevant
> to the conversation, it needs to go either before, or after the previous
> comments.  Technically, you can usually leave the previous context off
> completely in such cases, but it can be left in the message as a
> convenience at the cost of transmission size.  Placing it at the top
> incurs this cost plus wastes the user's time with irrelevant content in
> the common case.
>
> > Top posting certainly expresses no concern for those who come after the
> > fact (days, months, or years later) with no immediate knowledge of the
> > conversation thread. That can be a nightmare to untangle.
>
> Actually, top posting is MOST valuable to such people, as otherwise they
> would see the same content over and over again while trying to catch up
> on a given thread of conversation.  Anyone actively following the thread
> will only have their time wasted a couple messages at a time, but these
> individuals have to bypass the exact same segments dozens, maybe
> hundreds of times during the catch up.
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