Re: [libreoffice-users] Top posting

Actually, I was referring to the guidelines as originally stated. The guidelines have apparently 
been changed twice: once to add something about top posting and once to add a reference to the same 
source cited by the article generally.  I was not engaged in any falsehood; I just don't check 
guidelines weekly.... And it sounds like you have a personal problem :-)



On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 06:40 23/02/2012 -0900, Marc Grober wrote:
> > Notice that I am top posting as suggested by the guidelines ...
>
> I don't get involved in these disputes, mainly because they are characterised by intransigence 
> and _ad hominem_ arguments - and I won't do so now.  But you simply cannot expect to argue based 
> on a falsehood!  When you wrote this, the guidelines (at 
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette ) did not suggest top posting, but rather anything 
> but:
>
> > ... please do interspersion with trimming [...]. For a simple reply, this is equivalent to 
> > bottom-posting. So, remove extraneous material, and place your comments in logical order, after 
> > the text you are commenting upon.
>
> But since then someone has changed this to remove any sort of guidance at all.  Perhaps you made 
> the change?!  Or perhaps the original culprit did?  It's a fun system - isn't it? - when those 
> who are directed to guidelines and find they don't like them simply change them!
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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