Re: Taming the mailing lists?
From: ne... (akabi_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: 04/30/04
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:04:08 -0400 (EDT) To: "M. Fioretti" <m.fioretti@inwind.it>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
On Apr 30, 2004 at 00:20, M. Fioretti in a soothing rage wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 17:44:00 PM -0400, ne... (akabi@speakeasy.net) wrote:
>
>> >A link to Netiquette (trim your lines, proper sigs, and bottom-post)
>> >at the *top* of the message???
>> Considering the amount of top-posters on this list, it might
>> be the only way to get them to change.
>
>Sorry, no. The only way to get them to change is to *not* answer to
>them, ever, except with polite but firm requests to stop.
I need to learn to insert smileys more often.
>>I suspect that since they top-post, they only read the top part of
>>mail...
>
>That's their problem. Why do you suggest to bore people who behave to
>teach the others better manners?
>
>Just to make things clear: sending again screenfuls of already
>distributed/downloaded/paid lines is much worse than posting on the
>bottom, on the top, laterally, or any combination of them.
I agree with this 110%.
>Top posting is just one of the many things to avoid. To me, however,
>asking to stop top posting by...top posting seems annoying for no
>reason those who don't do it, but also one of the surest ways to make
>people laugh at who does it.
I left out the (-: I need to use them more...
>Of course, you are free to try that approach. Just don't be surprised
>if you are flamed to death (for top posting!) by all the other list
>members.
No thanks. I have long since learnt that it is hard for
ppl to change their ways. Some are so obstinate, nothing
will make them change...
N.Emile...
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