Hi :) I don't think there are people arguing that top-posting MUST be the ONLY way. On the contrary, we are pointing out that if the product is to be used by more people than are currently using it, especially if we want office workers to use it, then we have to be prepared for many of those to be unused to bottom posting.
I am sick of this argument. I have never been so brow-beaten or bullied in the supposedly Open world that supposedly encourages free-thinking and diversity. Instead it seems that LibreOffice is very restrictive, at least on the users list if nowhere else. Is Libre about freedom or about restrictions? Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: e-letter <inp...@gmail.com> To: users@libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 1 June, 2011 8:36:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [OT Top/Bottom posting] Re: Sun Weblog Publisher broken An incredible topic of discussion... Presumably because Americans do not use A4, everyone else must stop also. Similarly, majority of people on this planet understand implicitly yy/mm/dd or dd/mm/yy, but because Americans do not by default, everyone else must adhere to what the Americans are doing. Whatever is the policy, strategy of a fortune 500 company (whatever that means), you will do as they do, or expect the American army to arrive and enforce their rules. Resistance is futile... The fact is, organisers have made certain decisions (preferential use of mailing lists, disdain for web forums, advice to post comments for advice, etc.) and people have chosen to complain that they don't like these decisions. In the world of free software, there is nothing to stop such people from creating their own new fork; with that some suggestions: Create a new office software suite, call it something like "peopleoffice". Specify top posting as the rule by which help/advice will only be offered. Better still, avoid mailing list altogether and use a bulletin board software platform. Go away from LO. Good luck. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted