[libreoffice-users] Re: Old Hat "Top or Bottom Posting"!

On 6/2/11 2:39 AM, Thomas HInd II wrote:

> It is time for action, those that can't follow the rules of the road need to
> have their license taken away.  If the rules state you should drive on the
> right side of the road to prevent a head-on-collision than that is what you
> are to do "PERIOD", not what one feels like doing to be different.

What rules???   :-)  Please, do no regard that as a sarcastic reply, 
simply a statement of fact unless things have changed.

I access this list via the gmane.org and were it not for that option, I 
wouldn't be subscribed.

I now follow 4 open source newsgroups (I'm calling the LO mailing list a 
newsgroup for this message, as that is how the gmane system formats the 
emails), and I sadly have to say all 4 are really poor and unfriendly 
systems to new users.

Not from the perspective of the majority of the people who try to help, 
but from the perspective of how the organizations have set up their 
websites when it comes to finding help if you are a new user to the 
product and/or a new user of newsgroups and mailing lists.  Sort of like 
taking your car to the dealer, and no one is at the desk to schedule 
your repair.   :-)

Sticking just to "the rules"...

When I first subscribed to this list, I got into a discussion with 
another user about netiquette, and just what the proper "rules" were. 
That prompted me to do a little poking around the web for netiquette rules.

To keep it short, some places tell you to top post, some bottom post, 
some say interspersed.

LO says .................*NOTHING!*  I've not been able to find a page 
from TDF about netiquette.  Until TDF actually develops a netiquette 
type of rules page or guidelines, then there is no right or wrong way. 
Just different ways.  And those that say A is right and B, C, D, etc. is 
wrong are applying rules from a different organization to this organization.

Personally, I would prefer interspersed, it keeps the reply near the 
topic being replied to.


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Ken

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