On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 18:51, Octavian Rasnita <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to put a question. Is top-posting accepted on the list? I've thought about this for a while, and I think I've finally got something that should make everybody about equally annoyed. (There is no solution to this problem that will please everybody, or even please a sizable majority. It is the "toilet paper over or under?" of the mailing list world.) Let me preface this by saying that my personal preference is for bottom-posting. I cut my teeth on Usenet and large mailing lists and bottom-posting *with editting* seems like a sensible way to communicate to me. That said, I've also made my peace with shifting into "top-posting mode" when I'm dealing with people who don't have my preferences or experiences. So (and I will include a version of this in a "list culture" section that I will be adding to the FAQ): * We prefer bottom-posting but we will tolerate top posters. * We may *politely* _ask_ people to bottom-post. * We will not demand or order people to bottom-post. * We are free to not reply to people who top-post, or to otherwise ignore them. (Aside from the "don't demand/order top-posting", I think this is a fair synopsis of current list behavior, which was a large factor in this decision.) Thanks for raising the issue, Octavian. chrs, john. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
