On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:54:28PM +0000, Tony's unattended mail wrote: > Proper etiquette is established by those in a region, or in a > group.. it's based on where you are. If you enter a village where > everyone does something, that *is* the etiquette, by definition. To > go against it is to lack etiquette.
Yeah, the region in this case, is known as the Internet. > For some mailing lists, top-posting (as atrocious as it is), is the > proper etiquette. Care to point to a code of conduct where that is the case. I was on a mailing list which was for discussion of an open source software which was also used by a lot of Windoze users. Top posted and untrimmed posts tended to be the norm, resulting in threads where each message got ridiculously large, until someone snipped heaps and then it would grow again. The issue came up and, as usual, there was a huge thread about whether top posting was good or bad until one of the mailing list moderators stepped in and basically said it was against the code of conduct. In fact, If I remember correctly, one person was threatened with expulsion for arguing against the code. So it may appear that top posting is the proper etiquette, but I bet that if you read the code of conduct or, heaven forbid, challenge a top poster you'll find that top/bottom posting, not trimming, is (and for very good and hopefully obvious reasons) frowned upon. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
