Raymond Wan wrote: > > Rob Dixon wrote: >> >> Rob Coops wrote: >> >>> You are almost there but not quite... >>> >> [snip] >> >> I despair of saying this. >> >> Please bottom-post your replies (i.e. beneath the text that you are quoting.) >> Top-posting is fine for a short thread, but it gets to be an unintelligible >> mess >> if there are several replies. >> >> Bottom-posting is the standard for this list. >> > > I don't mean to sound disrespectful since you're far more helpful to > this list than I am -- so, I mean this in the nicest possible way, but I > genuinely would like to know -- where does it say that bottom-posting is > the "standard for this list"? I noticed you (and only you) have said > this a few times in the last month and I'm sure you're also getting > tired of reminding people... However, what was a request is now > stronger as you're saying it's a standard? > > I looked a bit for some etiquette list for this mailing list and > couldn't find out. Perhaps it's out there somewhere? > > BTW, I will admit that bottom-posting (with removal of very old text) > looks better than top-posting...a practice which I haven't fully > adopted. So, I don't disagree with you...just the fact that you said it > was "standard" caught my attention... Thanks!
Hey - be disrespectful! If it bounces badly you will know you shouldn't have been. There are people who oversee this list. The shame is they let pretty much everything by, in fact I haven't seen an intervention in the last year. To be fair it's mainly about abuse, but then they have to let Randal have his say too so then anything goes. I would very much like more order to this list. If anyone has thoughts on the matter then please email me privately (erm, about keeping order) (erm - order to this list) then I promise to collect your thoughts and tell the people who should know. After that I may tell you what was said and then something may change. There is my promise. Let me know if you wish. Oh, and Raymond: ask all the regular posters whom you respect what they think about posting style. They flagged way before I did :D R -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
