On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:04 PM, R P Herrold wrote: > > I'm pretty sure that consciously flouting known conventions of > a mailing list [regardless of a smiley] is an indicator that > the person doing it prefers to burden everyone else, rather > than do what that person 'knows' the expectation is. This specific mailing list does not have a defined top or bottom post convention for Ted to have flouted. > If you leave food out on the counters, you get roaches; if you > reward improper behaviour, the exceptions swallow up the rule, > and entropy wins sooner. If the rule is wrong, lobby to > change it; my vote on Ted's proposal to dump 'don't top post' > was stated publicly in my post. Simply deleting email from people who top post is a very high price to pay in lost knowledge, IMO. But if that works for you, go for it. Now, before we go any further with a "top posting vs. bottom posting" discussion, please see past discussions in the archive. A good start was my summary from 23.5 months ago here: http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20061113.221124.db67edc7.en.html Which, BTW, has a prediction that was full filled here: http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/lurker/message/20070121.140855.45d056c2.en.html And I will again predict that before next Halloween we will again see a discussion about top posting vs. bottom posting which will again change no one's mind on the topic. Alan --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss