Re: [libreoffice-users] <OT>Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

Rules are relatively new in  football's history.  The original game goes way 
back before medieval times and had few or no rules, even methods of scoring was 
not consistent and some had very indistinct 'goals'.  Variants of the older game 
still survive in specific villages and a few towns throughout Europe.  One that 
is restricted to a set pitch rather than using the entire town is played between 
prisoners released for the day and is more of a boxing match between various 
groups of players, no gloves.

In pool halls and pubs the players often agree to which set of rules apply 
before the game.  Same with poker, backgammon, even chess has many variants.  
Rules that are too rigid, inflexible and fail to take into account what people 
commonly do will often found to be broken and re-written later.  


Just because something is written as a rule now does not mean that it will be 
acceptable behaviour in the future (or in the past).  Smoking pot was legal 
until 1969 in the US.  Prohibition failed to stop people from drinking and was 
finally stopped.  Nowadays people seem to be encouraged to drink.  Does that 
mean drinking is good or was bad.  


I realise that people with OCD and autism often need tightly controlled 
environments and that skilled or even gifted IT people tend to have a much 
higher percentage of people with those conditions than the general population 
but people with those conditions often go in completely opposite directions of 
what they need.  So, i can see why some people would argue to restrict other 
people's use of the lists and i even think that is fairly fine on some of the 
lists but the users list is the first and only way for most new people to access 
help and those new people are unlikely to be familiar with bottom-posting and 
may not want to change their entire emailing system just to get an answer to 1 
quick question.  


We need to be flexible on this list.  Both top and bottom (and other) posting 
must be allowed to continue otherwise we restrict the percentage of people that 
would feel welcomed and feel like continuing to use LO.  If we don't want new 
users and want to make people feel uneasy and unwelcome then fine, insist on 
bottom posting.  


Regards from
Tom :)




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From: toki <toki.kantoor@gmail.com>
To: users@libreoffice.org
Sent: Wed, 1 June, 2011 0:21:49
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] <OT>Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken

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On 30/05/2011 21:42, Sigrid Carrera wrote:

> If you're going to a football match, you do obey the rules for the game, you 
> don't make up your own rules,

Supposedly, both rugby and Australian rules football got started that way.

jonathon
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