(urth) Threadtiquette

Jeff Wilson jwilson at io.com
Fri Jan 7 12:12:21 PST 2011


On 1/7/2011 8:41 AM, David Stockhoff wrote:
> I appreciate that. Actually. I did not feel singled out, but I don't
> respond well to seeing others browbeaten either, and I thought things
> were heading in that direction. I just want to be clear that _I_
> top-post because I want to, and so further suggestions about that do not
> need to be directed to me. I was also satirically suggesting that
> instead everyone should do what _I_ want, but no one laughed, so let's
> forget it.
>
> Are we good?

No, because insisting on top posting as you please on a mailing list is 
qualitatively like insisting on talking over other people as you please 
in a common meeting area. The disruption of communication is less 
extreme, but no less gratuitous after it has been explained.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >



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