Saluton bill :) bill lam <[email protected]> dixit: > On Fri, 07 Aug 2009, John Beckett wrote: >> >> Please bottom post on this list. Quote a small (relevant) part of the >> message you are replying to, and put your text underneath. >> >> See the list guidelines: >> http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/web/vim-information > > You moderators have already done an excellent job, but did you get > tired of sending this reminder, I can see people just keep on > ignoring, in that case, this kind of reminder just add noise to > mailing list. Or your reminder is too friendly?
Bram told me something like that when I decided that, for a day, I would signal *all* top-posters after some people insisted on top-posting even though John had warned them. I felt that John was alone in his warnings and since I'm a list admin too, I decided to act so people won't think that the entire top-posting warning thing was a personal preference of John. I won't go into details but warning each and every offender was not the preferred solution and anyway top-posters are die hard and insist in their annoying behaviour. I find it very rude giving that John have warned them *very friendly* and very frequently. Since the warnings are ignored I've decided to take another course of action using GMail filters *only on my account, not on the list*: if someone top-posts, his address goes to a filter that marks his messages, and after a second top-post, I delete all messages coming from that address. If top-posters thing their time is more valuable than mine, they're wrong. As a list admin I of course cannot do the same and won't do the same, but I won't warn anyone again. And yes, I think the reminder is way too friendly, but a ruder one won't have any effect anyway and John Beckett is a very friendly person so I find the reminder quite adequate. -- Raúl "DervishD" Núñez de Arenas Coronado Linux Registered User 88736 | http://www.dervishd.net It's my PC and I'll cry if I want to... RAmen! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
