[OT] TOP-POSTING

Bruno Wolff III bruno at wolff.to
Fri Jul 21 12:23:52 UTC 2006


On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 10:28:30 +0800,
  Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
> 
> It's funny that you should mention it. The intolerant people you speak
> of in the IT industry (or at least, the IT industry in my part of the
> world) are normally the first to scream "fascist" (or worse) when
> someone tries to tell them to lose weight, dress properly,be more
> diplomatic, improve their personal hygiene, etc. But they go ahead and
> do the same thing to others on mailing lists.

The ettiquette for tech mailing lists is for the benefit of the people
providing free tech support not (directly) for the people posting questions.
Once it becomes clear someone asking for free help doesn't care about my
time, they aren't getting any more free help.




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