Stop top posting, please.

[Jeremy Fowler]

Well, excuse me. Just to let you know. I've been around awhile and I take great offense to being 
called a newbie. I've posted my fair share of posts to USENET and other various mailing lists. I 
just have a different opinion as to what is convenient and acceptable, and from reading some of the 
responses to this topic I'm not alone. So take your righteous self indignant attitude and stuff it. 
Some people just need to learn how to be a little more tolerant of others. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mailing List Account for Jason Runyan
> [mailto:jrunyan.lists at dms.nwcg.gov]
> Sent: Friday, May 23, 2003 1:34 PM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: Stop top posting, please.
> 
> 
> On Friday 23 May 2003 13:09, admin at kclinux.net wrote:
> > Hmm.  Kind of interesting that alot of ISP admins/owners 
> and web hosting
> > admins/owners top post without anyone having a little hussy fit.
> >
> > http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-chat/0305/index.html
> 
> They don't seem to trim their posts either.  There shouldn't 
> be a lot of crap 
> to scroll through when people trim their posts.  This 
> certainly is a battle 
> between those who have been around for a while, and those who 
> just came on 
> the scene.   People can behave themselves as they see fit, 
> but to disregard 
> social norms in any group isolates you from the main group.  
> On a forum like 
> a mailing list you don't get read.  Which can really hurt 
> when your the one 
> with a question.  There is a good reason to respect your 
> elders or the 
> purists on this list, they are the ones who have the most 
> experience.  These 
> are the people who can help you with your biggest problems.  
> If you are 
> posting in HTML, or participating in something that utterly 
> annoying to these 
> people, then they are likely to ignore(probably automate the 
> deletion of) 
> your mail.  Much as the most well behaved kids get the most 
> attention in a 
> class room, even though it is often the miscreants who need 
> that help the 
> most, so it is on the list from those who have the most knowledge and 
> experience.   Its up to you how you post, but there are certainly 
> ramifications to those choices.  Weight them, and decide if 
> you want the help 
> of the people who may be offended by your lack of netiquette.
> -- 
> Swipple's Rule of Order:
> 	He who shouts the loudest has the floor.
> 
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