>>>>> On 6 Mar 2003, "Jeff" == Jeff Macdonald wrote:
Jeff> Mike, You seem to be a mission.
You know, I've thought and called mike a lot of things over the
years, but I've never considered him a mission :)
Jeff> I've done top posting because I'm to lazy to delete all the
Jeff> text that Evolution places in the message by default.
So what you're saying is that you're also selfish enough to be
completely inconsiderate of the majority of us on the list who follow
the various rules of good netiquette and that you're personal
convenience should over-ride the social norms of this community?
Jeff> Perhaps the answer is a smarter mail client that somehow
Jeff> prevents top posting?
How about a more considerate user who respects the customs of the
community, and maybe one who can properly configure their mail client
properly?
Jeff> However, I do know that my wife gets confused when comments
Jeff> are intermingled with the original message.
You wife is not on this list, so I find this statement to be
completely irrelevent. What your wife or anyone else finds confusing
has no bearing to the practices adhered to on this list. If you wish
to be part of any community, you need to follow the rules to which
that community subscribes. If you don't, there are consequences to
pay. Here, you'll likely be ignored, filtered out by something like
procmail, or, for the worst offenders, barred from the list (though
no one has ever reveived that here to my knowledge).
But, since you brought it up, I've found that most people who are
new[1] to the 'net and have not bothered to read up on the good
practices of netiquette both 'get confused' as you say, and usually
don't follow the rules.
Please read:
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc1855.txt
and
http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html
I don't mean to sound unusually harsh, however, the idea that your
personal laziness is more important than being considerate to others
in this community I find totally intolerable. Please be nice, and
please play nicely with the other children in this sandbox.
Thanks,
Paul
[1] By 'new to the net' I mean anyone who has come on to the net since about 1997.
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