Top posting and "no subject" messages.

[Ryan Betts]

HAHAHAHA! LOL! Punching a baby! BWAHAHAHAHA

On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 14:38, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 20:22, Elton Woo wrote:
> 
> > A: <enter flame, long, illogical tirade here>
> 
> Yup, it's a fact of life, top posters never die ... well actually they
> die of old age first, then grow younger for 80 years, until they regress
> into a Stanley Kubrick rebirth paradox.
> 
> However, flaming them is pointless, since 50% of all top posters are
> clueless newbies (flaming a newbie is like punching a baby) and 50% used
> to be clueless newbies who were flamed for top posting and, in an act of
> defiance, stood their ground so as not to lose face, even though they
> secretly knew they were wrong. The result is a swarming army of "Top
> Poster Club" members who are more likely to continue doing it, simply
> because you tell them not to.
> 
> Then again, who the hell do we think we are, telling *anyone* what to do
> ... right?
> 
> That's right; Top Poster Club members have a lifetime Gold Pass to post
> their messages upside down, incorrectly spelt, poorly punctuated and
> completely off-topic ... er ... just like this thread.
> 
> Let me remind you of a wonderful device for hastening the termination of
> a "bad" thread; "Godwin's Law" (normally used in the context of Usenet,
> but a mailing list is similar). Best of all, to invoke it, one has only
> to quote it:
> 
> "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison
> involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."
> 
> The end.
> 
> --
> [H]omer
> 
>