On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:29 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > > No, i wasn't saying that anyone was deliberately unfriendly but i think we > need > to have better ways of dealing with top-posters because we often give an > appearance of rudeness. > > People that do top-post are unlikely to be aware that there is another way.
Don't take this personally, but you aren't helping at all by top-posting everything all the time. If we want to encourage others to bottom-post, one way to do so is to bottom-post. That's a big "if." A simple note at the top of a response to inveterate top-posters would suffice, combined with later notes not to top-post and a handy reference to a list etiquette guide (when there is one) ought to be enough: "Please see below for response/answer(s)." Proper quoting also helps - when a post begins with a clear and obvious quote of someone else's post, it's a fair stretch *not* to figure out that there's something lower down that might be of interest. I have not seen a posting guide for this list that specifies bottom-posting as the preferred method, as opposed, say, to the Ubuntu users (and most technical discussion lists for that matter) where bottom-posting is explicitly called for in the group guide. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
