TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ed Greshko]

Peter Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:04:15 -0500
> "Steve T" <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> And KDE is better than Gnome and Apple is better than M$ and
>> Republicans are better than Democrats and top posting is better than
>> bottom posting.  Are there any other completely subjective opinions
>> that I missed?
> 
> Let's just ignore the issue of whether top or bottom posting is "better" :)

You can't because....

> The point is this: the convention on this list, and every other Linux list
> I have ever been subscribed to, is to bottom-post or interpolate when
> answering.

"Convention" does take into account what the majority has determined is 
"better".  I mean, it makes no sense to adopt a convention that has been 
determined to be inferior...would it?

> It's simply polite to follow the convention, whatever your personal view
> might be. The conventions are laid out here:
> 
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette

I'm sure the fedora list has a similar proclamation which some people either 
don't know about, or don't care about, or chose to ignore.

But for some strange reason it comes up and folks get bent out of shape 
about it....for different reasons.

The funny thing, I was lead to believe that the Xbuntu lists were immune 
from these petty discussions.   Nice to know there are humans here as 
well...  :-)

> 
> The part relevant to the present thread, (such threads recur every so
> often - it's practically a Law that top-posting elicits these threads), is
> mainly the section on that page headed "Technical Guidelines".
> 
> It seems reasonable for people to read and follow those recommendations,
> so that we are all doing the same thing, and threads or replies are easy to
> follow.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 


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