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
> 
> 
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