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

On 8 Sep 2011 at 14:31, Ken Springer wrote:

> With all due respect Tom, the problem is you and the tools you've chosen
> to use for replying to newsgroups.  Yahoo Mail just plain sucks and
> doesn't properly do anything right for places like this.

I think that single paragraph explains why this thread has become so 
heated. YOU are reading this list on a NEWSGROUP. But the list is also 
available as a EMAIL LIST and an archive of that same EMAIL LIST on 
Nabble. I would hazard a guess that the vast majority are subscribed to 
the email list or view it on Nabble, and as such consider it as an 
email list and not a newsgroup.

Newsgroup people have shown over the years to have different practices 
than emailers. Bottom posters probably predominate, also the practice 
of long quotes seems far more prevalent there. And noting the comments 
about threading, most newsgroup readers do it via the header 
information. Email clients do it in various ways and I suspect Pegasus 
is far from unique in doing if from the subject line - and many email 
programs have never heard of threading...

I do receive a number of lists via newsgroups, using Gravity. But I by 
far prefer email so this is my chosen option for this list.

We are never going to agree on these issues due the huge differences in 
opinion between the newsgroup, email and forum people. So let us close 
these threads immediately and accept our differences.

Dave

http://www.davesergeant.com


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