ne... wrote:
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 14:36, Chuck Payne
wrote: I understand that it's the group policies, but at time when I am on my blackberry, I can't help top post.
You do realize that you have the option of not posting right? I think instead of making excuses about what you post from, we all follow the netiquette for this list.
ne...
Actually I, as a firm bottom or interleave poster, accept things like this and people who have to use text-to-speech interfaces as reasonable excuses. I won't usually top-post _for_ them, unless the email is specifically directed at them, but I have no problem meeting them half way and reading their inconvenient posts bearing in mind that everything in inconvenient for them and all I have to do is read a post a little out of order. As someone else mentioned, one big reason top-posting is so bad is that it exhibits a lack of concern for anyone else but themselves. Well, I don't want to be guilty of that myself so if there is some reason a person can't, or can't easily, do anything but top-post, or can't quote as clearly as might be nice, well, I'd rather have them in the discussion and put up with the limitations of their blackberry or their text-to-speech software than not have them in the discussion. The ones who have no excuse but just insist on ignoring the requests because it doesn't make sense to _them_ and _they_ remember what _they_ wrote and so _they_ don't need to read anything but the new response without any context, those people I am perfectly happy to ignore and leave out of the discussion. They have shown themselves not to be very insightful thinkers and I doubt I should value many of their offerings. The insightful thinker who maybe comes to techy mail lists new, or who was simply not yet born when the basics of practical email protocol were worked out by smarter people that you or I, would ASK, "I don't understand the point of this rule. Why is it?" THAT is perfectly reasonable. That is a world of difference from the garbage Linda just spewed (and countless before and after her). Observing that some practice is "old" in no way implies that it is obsolete or no longer fits "todays world". Rather the opposite sometimes. Many "old" practices involving the internet were simply worked out very early on by the very smart people who then made up the entire population of the internet and it's precursors. Now the internet population basically reflects the general population, so of course by definition 90% of them, including 90-or-more% of those who complain about things like top-posting, are stupider and more ignorant than the elite class who developed those practices. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org