Top Posting....

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 10:28 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:04:28 -0500, Gene Heskett
> <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 March 2005 15:53, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > >On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Phil Labonte wrote:
> > >> To quote the Wikipedia definition:
> > >> "Top-posting is considered improper by some OLDER DEFINITIONS of
> > >> Internet etiquette since it breaks down the flow of the thread:"
> > >>
> > >> It's time to embrace change, change is good. Top posting gis here
> > >> to stay especially because of GMAIL and outlook...
> > >
> > >jeezus, can we just start two lists for every fedora-related topic?
> > >one list will be for clueful people who don't top post, who don't
> > > post in HTML, who properly trim their posts and who don't have
> > > 30-line idiotic, company-mandated sigs whose only purpose is to
> > > justify their corporate lawyers' existence.
> > >
> > >the other list will be for the annoying, clueless twits who think
> > >linux mailing list behaviour should be mandated by what freakin'
> > >outlook does.
> > >
> > >rday
> > 
> > Finally, a solution to the problem that might actually work. ;-)
> > 
> > Unforch, the mail server would have to translate the To: address
> > according to whether or not the message contained top-posting I'd
> > think, because we'ed otherwise fail at convincing said twits to use
> > the right list.
> > 
> > That shouldn't be too hard to code up in a bash script I'd think.
> > 
> 
> Better yet: instead of creating a second list, return the
> top-posted/html e-mail to the sender (refusing to distribute) and
> explaining the reason why.
> 
> Is it REALLY a possible thing to do? That would save a lot of time and
> bandwidth!
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I seem to recall you being the instigator of a set of 'rules' which
apparently seems to empower some to brow beat others that don't follow
your unofficial rules.

yes, there has been a lot of bandwidth expended on this topic - the
natural result is that nothing gets resolved.

Craig