[OT] Blackberry (Was: 'Tone of the list' discussion)

[Nils Kassube]

Faizan Kazi wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu) <
> amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> > christopher.lemire at gmail.com schreef:
> > > P.s. Excuse my top post. I tried to bottom post, but the
> > > blackberry curve smartphone's email client would not allow me to
> > > bottom post.
> > >
> > > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
> >
> > You don't *have* to send email from your BlackBerry. There is
> > really no emergency on this mailing list that forces you to reply
> > without delay. You could just wait a few hours until you are back
> > at the office or back home, and send your email from your regular
> > computer, in all comfort.
>
> Amedee, take it easy, this is an open list. top posting isnt such a
> bad thing. If you can read english, you shouldnt have a problem. He
> cant help it.

Well, if you read [1], it seems to be possible to write decent mails
even with a blackberry. I think Amedee described it very good. If I
translate that text into German (my native language) and back into
English it would read like "I know the rules but I don't care because
advertising my smartphone is more important to me. My excuse is that
I'm not smart enough to write a decent mail". To me the blackberry mail
really looked like an intentional violation of the rules [2], which
isn't very nice.


Nils

[1] <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2009-May/184225.html>
[2] <http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette>