Actually, I was referring to the guidelines as originally stated. The guidelines have apparently been changed twice: once to add something about top posting and once to add a reference to the same source cited by the article generally. I was not engaged in any falsehood; I just don't check guidelines weekly.... And it sounds like you have a personal problem :-)
On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Brian Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > At 06:40 23/02/2012 -0900, Marc Grober wrote: >> Notice that I am top posting as suggested by the guidelines ... > > I don't get involved in these disputes, mainly because they are characterised > by intransigence and _ad hominem_ arguments - and I won't do so now. But you > simply cannot expect to argue based on a falsehood! When you wrote this, the > guidelines (at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette ) did not > suggest top posting, but rather anything but: > >> ... please do interspersion with trimming [...]. For a simple reply, this is >> equivalent to bottom-posting. So, remove extraneous material, and place your >> comments in logical order, after the text you are commenting upon. > > But since then someone has changed this to remove any sort of guidance at > all. Perhaps you made the change?! Or perhaps the original culprit did? > It's a fun system - isn't it? - when those who are directed to guidelines and > find they don't like them simply change them! > > Brian Barker > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
