[scribus] 1.3.9 debian builds?

Jim Ford jaford at watford53.freeserve.co.uk
Sun Dec 5 10:39:56 CET 2010


On 12/4/2010 10:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 
> On 12/04/2010 02:21 PM, ehud.kaplan at gmail.com wrote:
>> What does top post mean?  I use Thunderbird as a front end for gmail and
>> clicked on Reply-list.
>> EK
>>
>> On 12/4/2010 3:53 PM, Peter Linnell wrote:
>>> Hi,
> 
> Top posting is when you put your reply above the original text, as you
> did above.  It's considered bad manners by most people because it means
> that you read everything in reverse chronological order.  I'm guessing
> that Outlook and other Winderz email programs work that way because
> dead-tree files are always done that way and office workers are used to
> reading things backwards.

Perhaps it's best summed up by saying that a thread's a story. Stories
don't go:

And they all lived happily ever after.
They had a family.
They got married.
There lived a man and a woman.
Once upon a time.

Jim



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