Top posting in response to a top post is etiquette. Gloating over the fact that fellow human being is put-off by your behavior is not. Top posting because your email software is incapable of doing otherwise is somewhat like being a child with 'special needs'. The rest of us should be grown up enough to accept you as you are.
Personally, I would like not to impose on the good nature of others, except of course to avoid embarrassing a person with 'special needs.' One absolute rule of modern etiquette, as I understand it, is that one NEVER enquire as to whether one's interlocutor is a person with 'special needs'. On 2009-03-06_18:14:35, Glenn English wrote: > And it's next to impossible not to with the lame email client on this > iTouch... > > -- > Glenn English > g...@slsware.com > > > On Mar 6, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Paul E Condon <pecon...@mesanetworks.net> > wrote: > >> On 2009-03-07_00:39:18, Terence wrote: >>>>> Date: Fri Mar ?6 11:06:29 2009 >>>>> From: Joe McDonagh >>>>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>>> >>>>>> Hey Steve, I love that just by typing up here above e-mails I can >>>>>> make smug users like you go postal. I feel powerful. >>>> >>> >>> If being the sort of irritating sad little tit you apparently are >>> makes you feel powerful, go for it. >>> >>> As Wendall said "Top-posting inconveniences almost everyone" but you >>> obviously have nothing else in your life to offer the same sort of >>> high. >> >> There is a big world out there beyond the confines of the Debian >> lists. There is a lot of top posting out there. It must be easy for >> twits to come to believe that top posting is always, and everywhere, >> OK. And that people who object are fair game for intimidation. and >> ridicule, but --- here on Debian lists is a special place. Here is a >> place for people who are above the common herd. And. no, this is not >> sarcasm. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org