Things I love/hate this week, edition 3Posted Friday, March 18th 2005 @ 3:07PM
Adding ‘hated' items to the list this week, because once in awhile I'd just like to throttle the general population at large. No offense if you're part of it. With that said, annoyances this week:
People that don't know how to use email.
Learn to communicate properly via written word, please. Your top posting is wasting the time of everyone who reads from the top of the page to the bottom (99.9% of the US population) and shows that you never bothered to outgrow your newbie habits.
Quoting should be used for quoting a line you're about to reply to, not for re-documenting yet another full copy of the email in the thread, and all 20 replies back in the message. Use a standard ‘>' or ‘ | ' to indicate a quote. Don't use initials - that's disgusting, and not easily parsable for mail clients that visually separate quotes by color.
MS: Here's an example of someone incorrectly thinking
MS: that their quoting style is spiffy and unique!
Email is a communication medium. Why needlessly make it so difficult for others to do so? Quit being so lazy.
SpamCop.
Recent blacklisting policies just further demonstrate that SpamCop has no real concept of how smtp works. If you're using them to filter your email, there is a good chance you're missing mail from valid senders. RFC lines that use the word "MUST" aren't ‘recommendations'. People that follow RFC on envelope-sender bounces aren't automatically spammers. Wake up.
The spelling of the word "Lose".
I make spelling errors quite a bit -- but there is something about ‘lose' that nails everyone - from 12 year olds, to English professors. "I'm loosing interest, you looser!"
It kills me. KILLS.
Ok, onto the good stuff: Faith No More Came up randomly on the ipod early this week. Whisked me back into 8th grade. "Zombie Eaters" is fantastic. I had forgotten. Perl regexp debugging I always forget this pragma exists. Having a problem with a regexp not doing what you think it should? Add to your script: use re ‘debugcolor'; Bad ass. Good text formatters Par is great for cleaning up the poorly formatted mail of others (read up), as well as your own. In particular, "par w72qrg" is quite delicious. Perltidy. Add "-nola -sbl" to your .perltidyrc, rock and roll. (It still does a couple of silly things, but in general, I can just dump a bunch of code out of my brain without regard for "looks", and it is auto-magically transformed.) Even better, vim key bind both par and perltidy, and I'm in text formatting heaven. map ^^ {!}par w72qrg<CR>
vmap ^^ !par w72qrg<CR>
vmap ,,^ !perltidy<CR>
nmap ,,^ !!perltidy<CR>Grunt. |
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Thursday, March 17th 2005 @ 4:46PM
TOP POSTING 4EVA
Thursday, March 17th 2005 @ 5:01PM
Ben, you ignorant slut! :)
Thursday, March 17th 2005 @ 5:50PM
Whatever, dude.
On March 19th, 2005, Mahlon sed: > Ben, you ignorant slut :)
Thursday, March 17th 2005 @ 10:28PM
I personally am a top-posting whore. I like it, I use it, unless the conversation has gotten really long and in depth and I need to address a bunch of points.
If it's quick stuff, I just throw my text at the top. Answer response. Done. I only split it out and take the time to insert text elswhere if it's going to make sense (and mostly it doesn't!!!).
TTFN bitches.
Friday, March 18th 2005 @ 11:45PM
Definitely for top posting. You can read down if you forget what the thread is about. However, blame mail clients that by default have you compose at the top.
Saturday, May 7th 2005 @ 8:36AM
Dude, you forgot to use customized quotes!
On March 19th, Benzilla (BZ) wrote: BZ: Whatever, dude. BZ: BZ: On March 19th, 2005, Mahlon sed: BZ: MS: Ben, you ignorant slut :)
Saturday, May 7th 2005 @ 11:07AM
Even I think that's too much ;)
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