Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 17:25, houghi wrote:
> I start to doubt it, or they are on a holiday.
> It seems that there is no official point of view, wich means I can also
> not point people to any official rules and they can not point me to any
> official rules.

I don't know for this particular list, but the english speaking lists on 
lists.suse.com have always had a "live and let live" policy. And I think 
that's a good thing on lists where you have new users, migrants from windows 
and others. Let's not scare them away.

I prefer bottom posting, and I like it when people quote properly, but even 
more than this I hate it when people start these debates on-list, because 
invariably these debates take up far more space and cause far more annoyance 
than the original "crime" did.

If you want to give someone a pointer to the "correct" way of doing things, 
*please* do so off-list, and politely