Terence McCarthy wrote:
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 23:08:07 +0200 jaska
wrote: And even if I should *once again* start a war, I just can't understand why some are so picky about how people write their reply.
I personally HATE when I need to scroll down to see the respond. I actually ignore the thread, and go to next one.
You top-post and full-quote-under. Haven't lost the windoz mentality.
You apparently haven't understood what the comments (immediately aboove) are about.
As for "picky", it's about social manners and what is acceptable to a particular group. If you really can't put up with the way most of us do things in this group, don't use the list.
If you want to remain, please conform to what the list expects, that's all.
I'm here for the technical content and try to put up with some of the quirks of this list as best I can. However, having said that, I find the reply to OP default to be irritating. I'm in a few other mail lists and web site forums and also read newsgroups. In addition to that, in the past I also participated in the old BBS and Compuserve forums. In each and every one of those, the default has always been to reply to the group as a whole and to the OP as the exception. For some idiotic reason, this list does the opposite. And yes I have read the stated sources and failed to find a satifactory reason for this policy. If many people are complaining about the way a list is run, perhaps a reveiw is necessary, rather than telling people to accept it or leave.