Top vs. Bottom again (Was:Re: SELinux vs. AppArmor vs. Standard vs. What?)

[mike havens]

if wed are paying attention to the thread we don't need to re-read the
discussion. that is why I top-post.

On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 1:26 AM, Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:04 PM, R P Herrold <herrold at owlriver.com>
> 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
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