And what rules does the list go by?? And who made those rules??
The rules have grown up over decades of use of email and usenet for discussions. The rules have been made, such as they are, by the hackers who have gone before us. And they were right.
Each to his own way of doing things is the only rule I can see... Life is too short to nit-pick every little thing.
Then you won't make many friends here. I'm quite an easy going guy, but I like politeness, and I like etiquette, because that way people demonstrate they value the community they are seeking to participate in. If were to join a Country Club (heaven forbid), the first I would do would not be to insist they change/abandon half of their rules because they didn't suit me. (The first thing I would do would be to order the driest martini the bar-tender could produce). As always, ESR has a fairly definitive word on this in the Jargon Lexicon: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/TOFU.html and http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html. Of course, had the SCO discussion gone to the OT list (SCO discussion was one of the reasons it was established) in the first place, none of this would have happened. I need coffee. -- James Ogley, Webmaster, Rubber Turnip james@rubberturnip.org.uk http://www.rubberturnip.org.uk Jabber: riggwelter@myjabber.net Using Free Software since 1994, running GNU/Linux (SuSE 9.0). GNOME updates for SuSE: http://www.usr-local-bin.org