[OT] TOP-POSTING

[Steven Ringwald]

bruce wrote:
> now joanne...
>
> are we going to talk about rules,top-posting or corsets...
>
> rules.. don't really care about...
>
> top posting... not that into the san fran stuff...
>
> corsets... now we're talking!!!!!!
>
> what kind.. do you have a web site??
>
> yeah.. i'm laughing!
>
>   
>>>> The Fedora Wiki has a page with "rules" written down:
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MailinglistGuidelines
>>>>         
>>> Alex, rules are for pedantics, tyrants, Democrats, and religious
>>> fanatics. Humans should be adaptable. But I do agree that bottom
>>> posting is somewhat easier to read and should be RECOMMENDED but
>>> not insisted upon.
>>>
>>> {^,-}   Joanne winking and sticking her tongue out in your general
>>>        direction.
>>>
>>>       
>> As I read your smiley as a request for comment: there was a reason why I
>> quoted the word rules when pointing to the wiki page. And the page
>> content itself reads as "guidelines", which from my reading is not that
>> strong as "rules" would be. Can a native English speaker agree to this? :)
>>
>> Kind regards Joanne  (^_~)
>>     
>
> Guidelines are recommended but optional practice. Rules are generally
> taken as "must be obeyed" sort of things if you want to play the game.
>
> Football, um both kinds I believe*, has rules. Life has social
> conventions such as being polite and opening the door for a person
> carrying a burden even if you're a woman and the other person's a
> man. I take that as trumping the old convention that men ALWAYS
> opened the door for the "helpless" woman. (Which in Victorian
> corsets helpless was very likely closer to the truth than most
> want to admit.)
>   

Geez people! Is Fedora working so well that we have nothing better to 
discuss? Let's get back to real issues, and stop bashing people who ask 
for help.