On 8/13/05, robbinsc@email.arizona.edu <robbinsc@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
Quoting Andre Truter <andre.truter@gmail.com>:
No, I am blaming the user. People are just lazy and inconsiderate.
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the difference between top and bottom-posting. I've been on a few lists (I haven't been in Linux that long - almost a year and a half - I'm learning as much as I can), but no one ever made an issue out of the two.
It is normally on the technical Linux/UNIX/BSD lists where people make an issue of netiquette. Windows and genral-purpose lists seldom do. I got my first rap on the fingers (and wake-up call) in the previous century when I was still developing on the Windows platform, using Borland C++ Builder. I posted a message to a Borland forum using Netscape and at that stage I thought the HTML mail is "so cool!" Then one of the Borland developers explained to me the errs of my ways and it made me think a bit. I immediately changed all my mail clients to plain text. :-) [...]
see the reply and be done with it. I guess for me (and an unknown number of others), it wasn't being "lazy and inconsiderate", but a lack of knowledge of such ettiquete. Armed with this quick (and somewhat testy) discussion,
Yes, you are correct. Most people just don't know about it and don't think about it unless someone points it out. (Like in my case) The "lazy and inconsiderate" that I mentioned is actually referring to people who have read the mailing list guidelines/rules and someone has already pointed out to them that top-posting is not a good thing, but then they still continue to do it and try to justify it. I did not mean to offend (sorry for that), but I am abit testy about this, as I am subscribed to whole number of lists and this discussion pops up every now and again in most of the lists. (The Ubuntu mailing list also have an active thread on this at the moment) <rant> The thing that really gets me is that people will join a list that has been running for years and then they want to change the rules a month after they joined. They don't even understand what netiquette or lists are about and that a lot of the people on the list do not always have the same advantages (like lots of cheap bandwidth) as they have. This is just plain rude. You don't walk into someone else's house and start to move the furniture around. There might be a perfectly good reason why the couch is in the kitchen. </rant> But I am very glad when people are willing to understand why there is such a thing as netiquette and they are willing to follow it to keep the community running smooth. Thanks :-) -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~