On Wednesday 17 December 2003 05:55 pm, Bernd Paysan wrote: > The sad thing is that "normal" involves some statistics, and "werty" is > perfectly right here: Top posting seems to be the norm, since Outlook Expest > is the dominant MUA of ignorant fools. Or sending around messages as
Hello Bernd. I was hoping this was dead but need to respond out of politeness. I don't see any point in insulting people. It was an informational guidance mail. That's why I added links so people could easily go and learn or investigate for themselves. People will do their own thing. But at least they are aware of the issues and that is important. > PowerPoint sheets or Word documents. Due to the enormous growth rate, the > Internet is still full of clueless newbies, and they teach each others bad > habits (or rather not: Ignorants must come to those bad habits all by > themselves, as they usually refuse any advice - that's why none of them has > tried to redefine the Netiquette; though they should be able to get a > majority for it ;-). Netiquette is well defined and has been for a very long time and there are many more sites than I have alluded to. Google netiquette. There is even a RFC 1855. Unfortunately, like many RFC's it is loosely defined. This is nothing unusual with RFC's, as I am sure you well know. > At work, I get a lot of top postings, PowerPoint and Word attachments, and > people complaning that my .gz files "are binary", and ask for a retransmit. > Since these are people I have to work with, I can't just ignore them, nor can > I easily educate them. Well work is one thing. Posting to newsgroups and mailing lists is another. It's not black and white but flexible, as you full well know. > > Enough said. It was an informational announcement. As far as I am > > concerned, this thread is dead. > > Is top posting now a variation of Godwin's law? Or is it just "werty", who did > up to now post nothing here but a single troll message, to which fortunately > noone responed? No. I have been seeing an upsurge on the mailing lists I am on, 27 at the present count, so I thought, as list maintainer, that I would cobble together an informational mail for the 22 lists I run. Education is a wonderful thing. I've already made some changes to the original mail and will probably put it on a web site and link to it in the future. > Anyway, if people in this list want that I read and respond to their messages, > I strongly suggest that they follow Martin's Netiquette. Making people aware is the most important thing. > BTW: There's no real real name in your E-mail address, either. It makes it > needlessly complicated to greet you correctly. Marrandy is fine. Call me Martin if you like. I'll change my mailers just because I'm a good net citizen :-) Regards...Martin -- "Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth." -- Milton --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
