Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-20 Thread Mélodie
Le 10/09/11 13:31, Ken Springer a écrit : Seriously, though, I checked the source for your message, and we both are using Thunderbird 6. Within the last week, I learned about the QuoteCollapse add-on. It takes each quoted section of a reply, and collapses it to one line. There's a little

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-20 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-10-20 4:52 AM, Mélodie melodie.hes...@free.fr wrote: I've used Quote Colors for quite some time, at each update of TB I get error messages, then mysteriously all starts to work again within a couple of days without any intervention from my part, and without an update to QC (is working at

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-17 Thread Wolf Halton
Hi, Just to add to the mix. My email client on android always makes me top-post, adding the original post on the bottom. It is interesting that people take the posting style so personally when they have not got enough information. It is quite alright to give me (or people who use Androids)

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-03 Thread Mark Wielaard
Dear Dennis, On Sun, October 2, 2011 22:00, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Mark, I think my question was concrete and very clear: How about you just read the goddamn RFC's for email protocol and stop whining about it? Which RFC's are you talking about? Numbers please. I don't see how RFC

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-02 Thread Mark Preston
To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page? On 30 September 2011 02:46, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I must say that I *am* surprised that LO haven't the technical/political ability/tenacity to properly post

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Which RFC's are you talking about? Numbers please. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Mark Preston [mailto:m...@mpreston.demon.co.uk] Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 06:12 To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-02 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Sun, October 2, 2011 20:29, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: How about you just read the goddamn RFC's for email protocol and stop whining about it? Which RFC's are you talking about? Numbers please. Please don't top-post (fixed it for you in this message). I assume the reference is to

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Mark Wielaard [mailto:m...@klomp.org] Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 11:59 To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page? Hi, On Sun, October 2, 2011 20:29, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-01 Thread Tim Schofield
On 30 September 2011 02:46, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I must say that I *am* surprised that LO haven't the technical/political ability/tenacity to properly post information regarding this issue in the same manner as the links provided (OOo, Mozilla, Ubuntu, et al). It may be possible

RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-10-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
orcmid comments-in-line=true / -Original Message- From: Tim Schofield [mailto:t...@weberpafrica.com] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2011 14:03 To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page? On 30 September

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-30 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Gary, NoOp wrote (30-09-11 03:46) After all that + discussions on the -user list it seems that LO doesn't really care to provide any specific rules/regulations/FAQ regarding Top/Interspersed/Bottom posting on any of their lists. [...] Has not yet been forgotten. But to manage

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-29 Thread NoOp
Top posted on purpose. After all that + discussions on the -user list it seems that LO doesn't really care to provide any specific rules/regulations/FAQ regarding Top/Interspersed/Bottom posting on any of their lists. So I'll abandon the topic and in the future when this issue comes up simply

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-13 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-09-12 8:42 PM, Robert Holtzman hol...@cox.net wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:06:49PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-09-11 9:47 PM, Ken Springersnowsh...@q.com wrote: Even if they did push it through, if no one enforces the eventual rule, the time will be wasted. I'd prefer

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-13 Thread Ken Springer
On 9/12/11 2:10 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-09-10 7:31 AM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: At this point, this add-on would seem to eliminate the need of trimming, too. No, no, NO... trimming should still be required. All QuoteCollapse does is spare me a lot of pain when I encounter

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-09-10 7:31 AM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: At this point, this add-on would seem to eliminate the need of trimming, too. No, no, NO... trimming should still be required. All QuoteCollapse does is spare me a lot of pain when I encounter morons who refuse to trim posts... --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-12 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-09-11 9:47 PM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: Even if they did push it through, if no one enforces the eventual rule, the time will be wasted. I'd prefer interspersion, as I almost always have to scroll around somewhere in order to remember what was being replied to. Most people

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-12 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:06:49PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2011-09-11 9:47 PM, Ken Springer snowsh...@q.com wrote: Even if they did push it through, if no one enforces the eventual rule, the time will be wasted. I'd prefer interspersion, as I almost always have to scroll around somewhere

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-11 Thread Ken Springer
On 9/11/11 10:35 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 09/10/2011 07:31 AM, Ken Springer wrote: On 9/9/11 11:24 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 09/09/2011 06:05 PM, Ken Springer wrote: Read it many times. I remain unconvinced. Their points assume a single style of reading email. I

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-10 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 05:31:50AM -0600, Ken Springer wrote: ..snip. At this point, this add-on would seem to eliminate the need of trimming, too. Of course that would screw non-TB users. snip -- Bob Holtzman If you think you're getting

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-10 Thread Ken Springer
On 9/7/11 6:16 PM, NoOp wrote: For those that continue to insist on top posting on the LO lists: please consider bottom posting with interspersed replies. snip Sadly, it won't matter what rules are in effect if there is no desire to enforce them. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.6.8 Firefox 6.0.2

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-10 Thread Ken Springer
On 9/10/11 12:25 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 05:31:50AM -0600, Ken Springer wrote: ..snip. At this point, this add-on would seem to eliminate the need of trimming, too. Of course that would screw non-TB users. Not all of them. And look

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-09 Thread Ken Springer
On 9/9/11 3:40 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: The links do not lead me to assume that top posting is expected. If the documentation group desires bottom posting only, the user should be informed when the register. Even then, I expect that most people will miss it. Expecting someone to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-09 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/09/2011 06:05 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 9/9/11 3:40 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: The links do not lead me to assume that top posting is expected. If the documentation group desires bottom posting only, the user should be informed when the register. Even then, I expect that most

[tdf-discuss] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

2011-09-08 Thread NoOp
On 09/08/2011 07:07 AM, Robert Parker wrote: There is one thing more irritating than top posting. People who rant about it. There was no rant. Perhaps you might take time to read the post *and* review the threads in these lists (particularly the 'users' list? Other lists (as I've demonstrated)