[libreoffice-users] Re: Top posting

On 2012-02-22 1:19 PM  Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
>
> Most people and especially those that are new to the lists will
> top-post because that is what they are most familiar with.  Office
> workers have almost never seen any alternative.  Unless the office apps
> are not aimed at office users then it's ridiculous to expect anything else. 
>
> Is it good to start off by telling people off for not doing things your way when we are supposed to 
> be offering them choices?  Should we alienate people and make them feel that to use LibreOffice 
> they have to completely change their entire lifestyle?  Is our main aim here to change the way 
> people post or is it to help people move to LibreOffice?
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)

Your persistent top posting in reply to an inline posted thread shows a constant disregard for 
convention. Your failure to correct your lack of quote levels for the message replied to is 
reprehensible. You show utter disregard for common netiquette.

If this message alienates you, Good. Your self-centred attitude alienates many.

> --- On Wed, 22/2/12, Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>  wrote:
>
> From: Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Installing LibreOffice - problem
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Cc: "Tom Davies"<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Wednesday, 22 February, 2012, 17:47
>
> On 2012-02-22 7:34 AM, Tom Davies<tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>  wrote:
> > On Wed, 22/2/12, Tanstaafl<tanstaafl@libertytrek.org>   wrote:
> > > On 2012-02-21 4:15 PM, Gregory Forster<glf.libreoffice@gmail.com>   wrote:
> > > > When reading and modifying Microsoft Power Point files  OpenOffice.org
> > > > did a considerably better job than LibreOffice 3.4.5 (for business
> > > > purposes).
> > > Disagree... I have had much better MSO format support in the later
> > > versions of Libreoffice than Openoffice ever provided...
> > I think Impress and Base need a bit of work but Writer and Calc are
> > quite fantastic for this sort of thing. Well, for the most part imo.
> Please stay in context Tom - and PLEASE stop top-posting in an inline posted thread (I expect this 
> admonition to fall on deaf ears because you have already demonstrated your blatant disregard for 
> respecting the List Posting Guidelines, and refuse to acknowledge the difference between *blindly* 
> *bottom* posting and intelligently in-line posting).
>
> The complaint wasn't about general file format support, it was comparing OOo (prior to LibO 
> splitting off) to subsequent version of LibO.
>
> I maintain my comment that *all* version of LibO have been at least as good, but mostly much 
> *better* than prior version of OOo...
>
> Charles
>
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Since you did not properly show attribution levels, the above message from Tanstaafl appears to 
be from you.

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