Please take me off your lists!!!
Phil Woodruff - [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Marcus" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, February 18, 2011 11:30:55 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] top-posting On 2011-02-17 9:18 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: > The presence of archives, or people coming in to a discussion that's > already underway, is the main reason that mailing lists differ from > normal conversational e-mailing where there may well be only two > parties, or several people who have all been there since the beginning, > where everybody just needs to see the most recent addition to the > conversation (or occasionally look deeper into the material for > reference) and top posting is the most effective way to keep > communications going. That makes much more sense on a FORUM... But, Barbara, honestly, I guarantee you the vast majority of people who participate on mail lists do not go to the archives to read entire threads... ever. They come here to post a question and get an answer. -- Best regards, Charles -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity *** -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
