On Sunday 21 January 2007 21:36, John Meyer wrote: > If you want an alternative view, check this out: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
Yep, as for myself and top or bottom posting - My only real contention is coherency. I do prefer bottom and in line posting, but for short replies I could care about top posting. What drives me nuts personally is with people include no or almost no reference to the conversation, and to a lessor degree every reply in a thread of say 40 posts (though I'm guilty of this from time to time). The other thing is that a noobie will top post and instead of initially trying to inform the noob that most/many on the list prefer bottom/in line posts they just start flaming and come across as anal retentive elitists. This goes for the unsubscribe as well - if you point out that the "headers" include the unsubscribe info and then, if appropriate, inform the unknowing what a header is and how to view it If then the person still doesn't "get it" then I could see people becoming annoyed and ill mannered. But too often people of a non-administrator background get lambasted with flames and condescending commits that IMHO are way over the top and just rude. Others have pointed this behavior out and that they might want to consider as Linux moves more to the main stream the list will encounter people of little technical background and that non-tolerant behavior is the fastest way to drive new users away. It is supposed to be a help list in the first place. Just my $0.02. Curtis. -- Spammers Beware: Trespassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! I don't want a politician I can believe in. I simply want a politician I can believe! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
