Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reply settings on this list have changed

Hi :)
That is very considerate of you!  Typical of you really.  I tried that for a while but in life 
generally (ie not just in here) i find that whatever i do annoys a large number of people so now i 
just do whatever is easiest for me to get the job done.  

I'm not convinced that whatever most people do is obviously right.  I tend to find the exact 
opposite.  

Just because my boss, his bosses, our management committee, all my colleagues, all the people in 
all organisations that we do business with including funders, all clients including individuals and 
everyone i email privately all top-post doesn't mean it's right or the best way.  The only time i 
ever see bottom or in-line posting is here or other OpenSource projects, usually projects that are 
losing people faster than gaining them.  

The question is not about wrong or right imo, it's about whether we want new people to start using 
LO and to feel welcome or do we want to discourage all newcomers?  

It is a pita that people get duplicates.  Another thing i am seeing is that people break out into 
"working groups" which may or may not fizzle out but even if they do resolve the problem that 
answer is unlikely to reach the list.  

Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Thu, 16/8/12, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:

From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Reply settings on this list have changed
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 16 August, 2012, 14:22


On 08/16/2012 03:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Bottom posting is a good way to alienate most of the target

I strongly dislike bottom posting.... Just saying... If it were obviously the correct and logical 
choice, then I expect more people would tend towards it naturally.

I usually follow what ever the last person has done so as not to annoy either side.

> Oh and this new way of having to use "Reply to all" instead of "Reply" is brilliant!  It makes it 
> more difficult to keep things on-list and more difficult for new arrivals to the list.  Perfect!!
With reply all, two copies are received by the original poster.

-- Andrew Pitonyak
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