RE: [cobalt-users] SOT: Top-posting

["David J. Duffner" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Leslie Herps
>Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 1:51 PM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] new mailscanner
>
>
>> Leslie Herps, you continue to top-post, even after being 
>asked nicely to stop. This causes everyone except you problems.
> How about a little consideration for the rest of us please?
>
>Tom,
>
>Please elaborate.
>Which message were you referring to?
>The mailscanner one, or the mySQL related one (550)...
>In the 550 one I used their post first,
>in the mailscanner one I didn't... I mean, I assume no one 
>finds the output
>of an 'ls -la' interesting?
>Or what exactly is it you mean...
>
>Just curious, (this is a serious question, no mockery!) are you the
>moderator of this list?

	About 50% of your last posts have 'top-posting' replies
which apparently drives those with digest modes insane.  Tom
seems to feel the need to speak for the majority, personally
I'm with you as to the relevance of the older text being on
top.  Apparently digesters feel that they shouldn't have to
scroll up to read previous portions of threads, and the rest
of us must then scroll down to the relevant content.

	It's a no-win situation.

	Thom posted the Meta-Faq recently, consult 4.4 and 4.4.1
as to the presumed policy covering these posts.  There is no
real Sun/Cobalt moderation per-se, I recently discovered Sun
isn't even running this list on a Cobalt piece of hardware.

	The flip side of this mundane argument is those who do
'bottom-post' but simply hit 'reply' and never bother to take
the time to snip out long sections of drivel that someone
could easily reference in the previous message.  Another
annoying element is those who do this and then leave 4-10
cobalt-list signatures stacked up within their replies vs.
simply deleting them.

	So, in conclusion, just reply n' snip and this whole
annoying situation will go away. I would note the Meta-Faq
actually makes reference to several 'policies' that are
either generally incorrect or not applicable, but of course
this is covered in Section 1 and specifically 3.1 of that
document. <Grin>

      David J. Duffner
      VP Operations
      http://www.nwcxpress.com


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