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

On 9/9/11 12:21 AM, Dave Sergeant wrote:
> 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.

You've brought up a point, Dave, I hadn't thought of.  I do use the 
Gmane interface.

Since you mentioned Nabble, it once again made me wonder if the display 
there was a mirror to the list I see in Thunderbird, so I checked.  And 
it is.  Which is the way I would organize an online help system.  I am 
suspecting that by using folders and threading in Thunderbird, I could 
accomplish a very similar display.  But I would have to constantly 
delete the email to have some free space on the hard drive!   :-D

When I get some time, aka after the summer work season is over, I'll 
have to remember to take a more in depth look at the Nabble interface.

> 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 used to use my Yahoo account regularly, but am dropping it.  I don't 
remember it being able to thread either, but it does have filters to 
direct mail to folders.

> 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.

Gravity???  The messages just fall out of the sky??????   :-D

My apologies, I just couldn't resist!

> 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.

The users don't have to agree.  LO needs to set up something more 
official in the way of netiquette than what they have now.  And 
regardless of which interface is used, i.e. the mailing list, Nabble, or 
Gmane, require and enforce the netiquette rules they develop.



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Ken

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