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 Thom LaCosta
>Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:38 PM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] SOT: Top-posting
>
>For a long time the list has been operating under the "gentleman's
>agreement" concept.  As far as it NOT operating on a cobalt piece of
>hardware, I'm thrilled, as the Cobalt implimentation of Majordomo is
>punishment for system admin and list members alike.

	100% agreement there, I'd discovered that little 
tidbit when I went straight to the source to find out
how THEY managed to get Mailman working for this List.
Lo and behold, they didn't.  They went and got another
box <G>.  Now while I may be out of turn, I was getting
the impression from that same source that it's not
even a piece of SUN hardware they're using - which left
me even more without a clue as to solving that mailman
problem on my end.

>> 	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.
>
>Perhaps if folks understood what the messages look like when 
>top posted, or as you cited improperly bottom posted, they'd
>think twice before posting(Ah Mom, I just bit my tongue for
>saying the obvious).

	Naaah, the lack of courtesy to chew off extra sig lines
or just click n' reply vs. snipping has been going on since
the BBS days in the 80's.  I've just learned to live with 
the lazy sob's <Grin>.

>Of course, as I've been told, I have no authority to post 
>the Meta-Faq, it isn't mine to change, just because I post
>it doesn't make me the moderator.....(g)
>
>Thom

	And of course, therefore because Sun buys Cobalt and
makes instantly EOL boxes and leaves the rest of us out 
in the cold, it doesn't make them a viable Corporation <G>.

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


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