On Mon, January 7, 2008 1:07 pm, Lindsay Graham wrote: > But [bottom posting] is not policy on this list
Not explicitly, maybe. Please note, however, that: 1) the OFFICIAL guidelines www.openoffice.org/ml_guidelines.html explicitly say to keep messages short and to the point, and that "All [OOo] lists follow the general principles of netiquette" where "netiquette" points to several linksis at the bottom of the page which specify that "short" also means "to only quote the parts that you are replying to and to remove the unnecessary bits" 2) the second link recommended by the official guidelines points to one of the main sources of "the general principles of netiquette" that is RCF 1855, which at page 7 says: "If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context" personally, I'm certainly NOT going to ever ask (or approve) that anybody is expelled from here or any other list just because of top posting. I just ignore most such messages. I just wanted to point out that saying that this list has no "bottom post" policy is wrong. An overzealous moderator who applied the current policies to the letter would have to stop users who top post, there is no doubt about that. Please don't shoot the messenger, complain with the moderators if you disagree with the current policies. > I too have a rule, Fred -- if ... I can't see the new post when I > open the message in full screen, the message gets deleted without being > read. as the refences above explain in detail, this is most often due to people who can't be bothered to trim properly, than to bottom or top posting. Please everybody trim as much as possible of every message you reply to before sending it. Users with a metered connection will be grateful, email will flow faster and bottom vs top posting becomes a non-issue most of the times, when both the new and the quoted text fit in one screen. Marco -- Help *everybody* love Free Standards and Software: http://digifreedom.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
