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

On 6/2/11 6:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote:
> On 2011-06-02 8:14 AM, Ken Springer wrote:
> > Well...  Please don't take this personally, but I'm sitting here laughing!
>
> Not at all, I've been laughing at this ridiculous discussion for days
> now... ;)

Good.  I learned within two weeks of being online, so many years ago, 
how easy it is to misunderstand the written word, I try to be careful 
and write as clearly as I can, yet fail every now and again!   :-)

> > I'd never noticed that netiquette link at the bottom of the page.  Maybe
> > that's not the best way for TDF to get info out.  After all, is the
> > reader of new messages going to read the sig files for each and every
> > message to see if there is new information?  It might be a major
> > assumption to think a lot of readers even read the sig file in the first
> > place.
>
> That is the problem - most people/users simply don't read...
>
> My only question is - whose fault is that?

I rarely read signature files, usually there's nothing there that is of 
value to the discussion.  Mine is an example of that for this thread. 
In my case, I list the open source software I'm using in case that 
information is useful to someone who is trying to help me with a 
problem.  Saves me time and may possibly lead to the solution to the 
problem.

Even the Netiquette pages acknowledge the issue of people possibly not 
reading the entire message and/or signature files:

From http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html, Section 2.1, 
third paragraph:

"It is not uncommon that people do not even read the entire article - 
who wants to read the entire text *again* in search of something new? "

From http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html, Section 2.2, 
second paragraph:

"In general, signatures have nothing to do with the context of the 
article, and usually you are not going to refer to the poster's signature."

So...  In a way...  Even TDF is putting netiquette information in a 
portion of the message they acknowledge most people aren't going to 
read.  :-)

Personally, I did find the pages to be unclear about interspersing a 
reply as I have done, as opposed to placing the entire reply after the 
message.  And it's noted, I'm reading an English translation of a 
document written in German.



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Ken

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