So, the argument is that people should follow rules(although they are really only guidelines) in order to not be a drone?? and you say that someone elses argument is silly! lol Regards from Tom :)
________________________________ From: Tanstaafl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 31 May, 2011 18:41:21 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] OT Top/Bottom posting This is a silly argument... On 2011-05-31 1:16 PM, Lindsay Graham wrote: > Ah, but neither of us would *ever *need to page down to see the > current post if we both top-posted. Irrelevant... like I said, the same thing applies to a properly trimmed bottom/inline posted message. The only time I need to scroll a bottom/inline posted message (which I mostly don't bother doing, I just click delete) is when someone like Tom bottom posts *without trimming*... > You cannot claim, in a general context, that there is there is a > *proper* way of using one's mail client. I can, I did, and I meant it. > In most mailing lists (and I access libreoffice-users through a > mailing list, not a newsgroup) and almost *all *commercial > correspondence, top-posting is used. Ahem... the posting guidelines link at the bottom of each and every one of the libreoffice-users list asks you to please bottom post... so your own example was misplaced... ;) > Why? Because, it is the most suitable in those environments. Wrong - it is because most people are lazy, and it is the easiest, and because it is the default for Outlook, which is what most corporate drones use. > On the other hand, I agree that bottom-posting is suitable in a > well-disciplined technical newsgroup -- but how many are > well-disciplined (ie, follow newsgroup netiquette)? Not many. They are not well disciplined because they are lazy, and because they can get away with in most cases. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
