Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

Hi :)
Look, the interspersed answers from Larry are practically unidentifiable from the message.  By 
posting at the top (or bottom) it would have been clearer which were your answers.  

Sometimes interspersing becomes possible if i notice the other persons response is in a different 
colour but in plain text it just doesn't work without good spacing.  From the 1st discernible 
answer i clearly wasn't missing much this time tho!  Normally i think sure rudeness should not be 
answered at all.  

'Regards' from
Tom :)


--- On Thu, 8/9/11, Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Larry Gusaas <larry.gusaas@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 8 September, 2011, 19:38

On 2011-09-08 12:10 PM  Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> No, he didn't.  He just showed that he has not read any of the  posts yet as his arguments are 
> already countered in previous posts.
Bullshit. You continually do not show the proper attribution in the posts you reply to. You have 
not countered this in any post. This has been mentioned many times but you refuse to correct your 
email client behaviour.

> Besides it doesn't matter how strong the argument against top-posting might be.  The fact is that 
> it is widely used especially by office workers.  Do we want to stop office workers from using 
> LibreOffice?  Alienating them would be a good way to get them to stay with whatever else they 
> already use.
What office workers do is irrelevant. How would support givers properly interspersing and trimming 
their replies keep office workers from using LibreOffice?

How would properly interspersing a reply to their questions alienate them?

> Betamax was a better format than VHS but it lost the battle for acceptance and now the argument 
> is irrelevant anyway.  Perhaps it is similar with bottom posting.  It might be better but almost 
> no-one in our target markets use it (note the "almost" there).  Most people would rather use 
> forums anyway as mailing lists are ancient and out-dated.
And that statement is totally irrelevant to the question.

> So, do we want to go the route of betamax, ie obscurity, or do we want to get LibreOffice out 
> there and being used?
How is the request to people giving support to properly intersperse and trim have anything to do 
with getting people to use LibreOffice?



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