[OT] TOP-POSTING

[jdow]

From: "Steven Ringwald" <asric at asric.com>

> 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.

I thought bashing was using the command line in Linux.

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